kickstart+part

[Bjorge Solli]

Chris Snook wrote:
> Bjorge Solli wrote:
>> Empty disk before install, both fedora 7 and 8.
>>
>> When I use part like this in a ks-file:
>> #Partition clearing information
>> clearpart --all --initlabel
>> #Disk partitioning information
>> part /reboot --fstype=vfat --size=256 --asprimary
>> part / --fstype=ext3 --size=40000 --asprimary
>> part swap --size=2048 --asprimary
>> part /scratch --fstype=ext3 --size=1 --grow --asprimary
>>
>> ..they don't show up in that order. Is there a way to tell fedora to 
>> keep the order? I tried using anaconda too, with the same result.
>>
>> regards
>> Bjørge
>>
>> PS. --onpart would not work since the partition table is empty or 
>> different before install.
>>
> 
> I've always done the partitioning in %pre and used onpart.  You can also 
> get things in the desired order if you use --onpart for only the second 
> out of three partitions, but I don't know of a way to do this with four 
> partitions.  This probably deserves a BZ, as it's been around (and 
> annoying) for quite a while.

BZ?

I'm opting to do it in %pre too, but it should be possible to do in the 
kickstartfile, imho.

Bjørge