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author | Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> | 2009-09-05 11:31:27 +0200 |
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committer | Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> | 2009-09-05 11:31:27 +0200 |
commit | 075d442e54c91dd945fde2c36d1f67623991ed73 (patch) | |
tree | 33607d3932d9d1e80ee0b85d3ff6447e2158294a /doc/official_installation_guide_en | |
parent | 7417edd15f355812513f31a3952c078e0b56ac6b (diff) |
official installation guide: config file syntax for automatic procedure
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diff --git a/doc/official_installation_guide_en b/doc/official_installation_guide_en index 472e28e..1054695 100644 --- a/doc/official_installation_guide_en +++ b/doc/official_installation_guide_en @@ -800,6 +800,22 @@ Invoke as `aif -p automatic -c /path/to/configfile` Obviously, don't forget to change the hard disk names unless you want to use /dev/sda. +#### Config file syntax + +Config files will be sourced by the bash shell, so they need to be valid +bash code. + +**PARTITIONS:** Allows you to define partitions for your hard disk, +separated by spaces. + +* first comes the device file for the hard disk +* then for each partition you want: size in MiB (or '*' for all remaining + space),filesystem type and optionally a '+' to toggle the bootable flag. + separated by colons (':') + +**BLOCKDATA:** In this multi-line variable you can describe for each +partition you'll have how it should be used. Study the examples to see how +it works. ### Customizing Installations |