On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:47:57AM -0500, Andy Zbikowski (zibby+tclug at ringworld.org) wrote:
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> Confused I am...
> Which are you kickstarting, guest os or host os? 

yes, host os.  creating a linux kickstart.
 
> I'm guessing host os, but that's just a guess. :)
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> It's usually best to let Windows handle the vfat formating, AFAIK mksf.vfat 
> doesn't support anything bigger than a floppy (well anyway...) That would be 
> my best guess for the source of the error. That, or the installers kernel is 
> really old.

so, if i make it an ext3 partition, will guest windows OS be able to
re-format and install on it?  
 
> Is there an option to create an unformated partition? That way when you 
> install vmware Windows will format the partition...

don't think so - from the kickstart docs, the part command has these 2
options relating to this:

--noformat

    Tells the installation program not to format the partition, for use with the --onpart command.

--onpart <part> or --usepart <part>

    Tells the installation program to put the partition on the already existing device <part>. For example, partition /home --onpart hda1 will put /home on /dev/hda1, which must already exist.

thx.
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Amy Tanner
amy at real-time.com