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List:       suse-autoinstall
Subject:    Re: [suse-autoinstall] Using GPT partitions with SLES9
From:       Jeremy Silver <jeremy-lists () broadware ! com>
Date:       2006-05-18 15:54:43
Message-ID: 1147967683.14675.12.camel () bigdog ! broadware ! com
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On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 17:45 +0200, Uwe Gansert wrote:

> On Thursday 18 May 2006 17:19, Jeremy Silver wrote:
> 
> > What I am wondering is whether autoyast will create a partition >2TB if
> > I use the above scheme, or if I need to add a partition_id or other
> > parameter? 
> 
> you don't have to add anything special to the autoyast profile. The disk 
> should have the label "gpt".
> It's not an autoyast thing but more a thing of the underlying storage 
> library that (auto)yast uses. If you can create such a huge partition 
> during a manual installation, it should work with autoyast too.
> 
> -- 
> ciao, Uwe Gansert
> 
> Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team
> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany
> e-mail: uwe.gansert@suse.de, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0,
> Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de
> 


Excellent, thanks Uwe.  I guess I had assumed autoyast would not be that
smart and I am glad I was wrong.

Thanks again.


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