Hi, > I have a new Thinkpad and want to preserve the second partition > (Compaq Diagnostics) while making a extended partition out of the > first one. > > setup_harddisks once worked with this configuration: > > disk_config disk1 > logical / 8192- rw,errors=remount-ro ; -j ext3 > logical swap 127-1024 rw > primary - preserve2 > > but setup-storage (version 1.2.1 from fai-client 3.3.5) does not work with > that one: > > disk_config disk1 preserve_always:2 > logical / 8192- ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro > logical swap 1024-4096 swap sw > primary - 0- - - >
[...] > > What to do? > Would you mind upgrading to either 3.4.7 or possibly even to an experimental version (well, right now 3.4.7 would be the better choice as setup-storage in experimental might be broken). That said, I've put the same disk layout on a test system and it seems to work fine with a slightly patched (see recent mails about problems with disk size) experimental builds. Therefore there's also a good chance that this works well with 3.4.7. Best regards, Michael
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