Andreas Haupt wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to let kickstart partition two ide disks. Here's an extract > of the kickstart file: > > #Disk partitioning information: > clearpart --initlabel --drives hda hdb > part /boot --ondisk hda --fstype ext2 --size 128 > --asprimary > part pv.01 --ondisk hda --size 1 --grow > part /usr2 --ondisk hdb --fstype ext3 --size 1 > --asprimary --grow > volgroup vg00 pv.01 > logvol /afs_cache --vgname vg00 --fstype ext3 --size 1024 > --name afs_cach > e > logvol swap --vgname vg00 --size 1024 > --name swap > logvol / --vgname vg00 --fstype ext3 --size 8192 > --name root > logvol /usr1 --vgname vg00 --fstype ext3 --size 1 > --name usr1 --grow > > This doesn't work! The anaconda installer complains with: > > Error partitioning > Could not allocate requested partition: > Partioning failed. Could not allocate partitions as primary partition. > Press 'OK' to reboot your system > > After removing the hdb entries (/usr2 partition and in clearpart) > everything works fine. But actually I want to have both disks > configured... > > What am I doing wrong here? I think you need a coma between the 2 hard drive, so : clearpart --initlabel --drives hda hdb should be something like : clearpart --drives=hda,hdb --initlabel whitout the partition cleared, the subsequent partionning fail. > Thanks in advance Hope it helps.