From 075d442e54c91dd945fde2c36d1f67623991ed73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dieter Plaetinck Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 11:31:27 +0200 Subject: official installation guide: config file syntax for automatic procedure --- doc/official_installation_guide_en | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/official_installation_guide_en') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf