I'm trying to configure autoyast to create three primary partitions:
/dev/sda1 (/boot)
/dev/sda2 (swap)
/dev/sda3 (/)
This is the XML I've come up with:
HTML Code:
<partitioning config:type="list">
<drive>
<use>all</use>
<initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>
<partitions config:type="list">
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I seem to be missing an instruction or misunderstand something here.
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Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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unallocated
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