CentOS - Sep 2005 - deleting selected partition in kickstart

I am trying kickstart for the first time, and am running into  
something I don't see described in the documentation.

Somewhere between me and my purchasing department and Dell, my order  
for 6 PE 1850s  was changed from "no installed OS" to WIndows. So I  
received the boxes with Windows pre-installed.

I would like to delete the NTFS partition with Windows, but keep the  
Dell Utility partition on the first partition. In the documentation  
for kickstart, I see options for

deleting linux partitions
deleting all partitions

but not one for deleting one or more specific partitions.

Am I right about this?
Thanks,


Tony Schreiner
Boston College

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:48:18AM -0400, Tony Schreiner enlightened
us:
> I am trying kickstart for the first time, and am running into  
> something I don't see described in the documentation.
> 
> Somewhere between me and my purchasing department and Dell, my order  
> for 6 PE 1850s  was changed from "no installed OS" to WIndows. So
I
> received the boxes with Windows pre-installed.
> 
> I would like to delete the NTFS partition with Windows, but keep the  
> Dell Utility partition on the first partition. In the documentation  
> for kickstart, I see options for
> 
> deleting linux partitions
> deleting all partitions
> 
> but not one for deleting one or more specific partitions.
> 
Correct. In this case, you can either delete by hand, or run a script in the
%pre section of your kickstart file, e.g.

%pre
parted rm 2

Matt

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