On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:47:57AM -0500, Andy Zbikowski (zibby+tclug at ringworld.org) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. :) > > 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. -- Amy Tanner amy at real-time.com