Help with autoinstall storage

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 18:16:51 UTC 2021


On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 3:47 AM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I have existing systems out there...
> basic structure
>
> sda1 is / (variable sizes) ext4
> sda2 swap (variable sizes)
> sda3 /home (variable sizes) ext4
>
> How do I create a storage section in autoinstall that the
> partition size does not matter - just "use" the current exact
> size, that formats /, that does not format /home and can skip
> sda2 or use sda2 - either way is fine. key is to just "use" the
> size of the existing partition.

If you mean that you want to install onto pre-existing partitions, you
probably have to use "preserve: true" instead of "wipe: <whatever>" in
the "type:disk" stanza. But I have no idea what you then have to use
for the "type: partition" and "type: format" stanzas.




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