help with kickstart partitioning

Rohit Kumar Mehta rohitm at engr.uconn.edu
Wed Jun 13 20:06:29 BST 2007


Please scratch this question.  Apparently Ubuntu kickstart doesn't 
support "part swap --recommended".  Putting in a "part swap --size" 
seems to fix this problem.

Rohit
Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote:
> 
> Hi guys, I am trying to set up a 100% hands-free kickstart installation.
> I can't seem to get past the disk partitioning without the user being 
> prompted for questions.
> 
> My ks.cfg looks like this:
> 
> #Partition clearing information
> clearpart --all --initlabel
> #Disk partitioning information
> part swap --recommended
> part / --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow
> 
> However, when it gets to that section of the file, I get an error window
> "You have not selected any partitions for use as swap space...." and 
> prompt to return to the partioning menu.
> 
> I've been playing with this for a while, but cannot figure out how to 
> bypass this screen.  Can anyone help?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Rohit
> 




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