Very well done, reminded me of some code that I wrote (poorly, I might add) but, I dug it up and found some changes that you might be able to implement instead of lines and lines of static configs. That being said, take some of these changes into consideration. Dynamic detection of drives and partitions: # Get Existing Drives existing_drives=$(fdisk -l | grep /dev | grep -i disk | cut -c11-13) # Set default drive default_drive=$(fdisk -l | grep --max-count=1 /dev | cut -c11-13) echo -e "What drive do you want to partition? [$existing_drives]: \c" read drive and then creating the partition table later: # Make Drive Selection if [ "$drive" == "" ] then selected_drive=$default_drive else # Verify Drive Exists does_exist=$(fdisk -l | grep --max-count=1 -ci $drive) if [ "$does_exist" == "1" ] then selected_drive=$drive else echo -e "The selected drive" $drive "does not exist. Using" $default_drive "instead." selected_drive=$default_drive fi fi num_partitions=$(fdisk -l | grep ^/dev | grep -ic $selected_drive) echo "There are" $num_partitions "partitions on" $selected_drive partitions=1 # Clear existing partition file rm -rf partition_table touch partition_table while [ "$partitions" -le "$num_partitions" ] do # Find partition numbers edit_partitions=$(fdisk -l | grep ^/dev/$selected_drive | cut -c9) # Parse out extra partitons if [ "$partitions" == "1" ] then work_partition=$(echo -e $edit_partitions | cut -c$partitions) # Write to partition_table file echo -e "d\n$work_partition" >> partition_table else if [ "$partitions_cut" == "" ] then # If First Partition after partition 1, cut off $partitions + 1 partitions_cut=$(($partitions+1)) else partitions_cut=$(($partitions_cut+1)) fi work_partition=$(echo -e $edit_partitions | cut -c$partitions_cut) # Write to partition_table file echo -e "d\n$work_partition" >> partition_table ((partitions_cut += 1)) fi ((partitions += 1)) done # build the rest of the table # Get Total System Memory total_mem=$(cat /proc/meminfo | grep -i memtotal | cut -c16- | sed s/\ // | sed s/kB//) swap_space=$(expr $(expr $total_mem + $total_mem) / 1024) # Write first partition to file echo -e "n\np\n1\n\n+100M\n" >> partition_table # Write Swap Space (double system memory) echo -e "n\np\n2\n\n+"$swap_space"M\n">> partition_table # Write / partition to file echo -e "n\np\n3\n\n\n" >> partition_table # Write partition setting to file and drive write echo -e "a\n1\nt\n2\n82\nw\n" >> partition_table # Set drive number variables boot_drive=$(echo $selected_drive"1") swap_drive=$(echo $selected_drive"2") root_drive=$(echo $selected_drive"3") # KEEP THIS COMMENTED OUT BELLOW HERE fdisk /dev/$selected_drive < partition_table Mainly due to the fact that you statically set the UUIDs of the drive that you want to use. Cheers, Kad On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > > Very rough, and very much a works-for-me thing, but I thought I'd share. > > > > https://github.com/mikemol/gentoo-install > > > > I wrote it to ease the pain of the "install-configure-build" cycle I > > was going through to figure out what was breaking glibc. > > Just a bit of a followup. I've got most of the bugs worked out, and > I'm very pleased with it. I've used it to get through most of the > install sequence for inara, and it's currently on package 113/158 of > its second pass of 'emerge -e @world'. > > If anyone else gets around to trying it, let me know. :) > > -- > :wq > >