PedroGomes
April 17th, 2012, 10:17 AM
Hi
I currently have a small cluster where I use Foreman to manage and until now I'm happy with it. But a few days, my colleagues asked me if it would be possible to have 2 Linux distros in the same disk on different partitions so they can easily change share the machines.
So, I started looking to preseed and partman and for the first installation I use the following setup.
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
#boot, so1, so2 (not mounted), swap, and two data partitions (images and data)
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
boot-root :: \
200 200 200 ext3 \
$primary{ } $bootable{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
mountpoint{ /boot } \
. \
10000 20000 11000 ext4 \
$primary{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ / } \
. \
10000 20000 11000 ext4 \
$primary{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
. \
1500 8000 200% linux-swap \
$primary{ } \
method{ swap } format{ } \
. \
8000 50000 9000 ext4 \
$primary{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ /images } \
. \
30000 60000 -1 ext4 \
$primary{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ /data } \
. \
d-i partman-md/confirm boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
And for grub
d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true
d-i grub-installer/with_other_os boolean true
#install in sda1 aka /boot
d-i grub-installer/bootdev string (hd0,msdos1)
Now the problem is in the second installation... I haven't found any examples of people trying to achieve this in partman or if it is even possible.
I tried to make partman use the option of using partition 3 from the menu but no success there (and I ended up with 2 swap partitions if I did it manually)
I have tried to use the same partman schema but taking the format options and changing root to partition3. This I found just recreates the partitions and so1 is not able to mount them...
I dunno if I can use the output of debconf-get-selections --installer | grep partman, but besides being unreadable, it seems hardcoded with partition ids and such.
Is this possible? Is there another way? :confused:
Thanks in advance.
I currently have a small cluster where I use Foreman to manage and until now I'm happy with it. But a few days, my colleagues asked me if it would be possible to have 2 Linux distros in the same disk on different partitions so they can easily change share the machines.
So, I started looking to preseed and partman and for the first installation I use the following setup.
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
#boot, so1, so2 (not mounted), swap, and two data partitions (images and data)
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
boot-root :: \
200 200 200 ext3 \
$primary{ } $bootable{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
mountpoint{ /boot } \
. \
10000 20000 11000 ext4 \
$primary{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ / } \
. \
10000 20000 11000 ext4 \
$primary{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
. \
1500 8000 200% linux-swap \
$primary{ } \
method{ swap } format{ } \
. \
8000 50000 9000 ext4 \
$primary{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ /images } \
. \
30000 60000 -1 ext4 \
$primary{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ /data } \
. \
d-i partman-md/confirm boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
And for grub
d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true
d-i grub-installer/with_other_os boolean true
#install in sda1 aka /boot
d-i grub-installer/bootdev string (hd0,msdos1)
Now the problem is in the second installation... I haven't found any examples of people trying to achieve this in partman or if it is even possible.
I tried to make partman use the option of using partition 3 from the menu but no success there (and I ended up with 2 swap partitions if I did it manually)
I have tried to use the same partman schema but taking the format options and changing root to partition3. This I found just recreates the partitions and so1 is not able to mount them...
I dunno if I can use the output of debconf-get-selections --installer | grep partman, but besides being unreadable, it seems hardcoded with partition ids and such.
Is this possible? Is there another way? :confused:
Thanks in advance.