RIS Repartition

[Roberto Ruiz]

Hi all,
I´ve never used RIS in production environments for a
limitation that I´ve never been able to overcome and I
believe that given the size of current hard disks it´s
quite absurd that there be no solution for it.
I need to do RIS installations on disks that contain 2
partitions: a system pertition and a data partition
without deleting the data partition or having to back it
up before the installation. I have tried the
repartition=NO and usewholedisk=NO options on both the
riprep.sif and ristndrd.sif and usewholedisk works because
the system partition is created with the size of the
original image, but the second partition is deleted, which
for me means that the disk is repartitioned and then the
system partition is re-created.
I have been able to overcome this by saving the MBR before
the installation and restoring it afterwards, but this is
not a standard procedure and it would certainly make me
very nervous if I had to do it with live data on the
second partition.
Any suggestions would be greatly appretiated,

Robert