Partitioning Error While Installing SUSE 11.3 Form USB

Hi,

I am installing openSUSE 11.3 from USB in a 64 bit HP system with one harddisk of 300GB size. I created bootable USB from uNetBootIn. I am getting a strange partitioning problem when trying to install from autoyast in autoyast “creating partition plan” section. Error message says “Error While Configuring Partitions. Try Again” and then the installation terminates. I use following autoyast xml for partitioning.

<partitioning config:type=“list”>
<drive>
<device>/dev/sda</device>
<initialize config:type=“boolean”>false</initialize>
<partitions config:type=“list”>

    &lt;partition&gt;
      &lt;create config:type="boolean"&gt;true&lt;/create&gt;
      &lt;crypt_fs config:type="boolean"&gt;false&lt;/crypt_fs&gt;
      &lt;filesystem config:type="symbol"&gt;ext2&lt;/filesystem&gt;
      &lt;filesystem_id config:type="integer"&gt;131&lt;/filesystem_id&gt;
      &lt;format config:type="boolean"&gt;true&lt;/format&gt;
      &lt;loop_fs config:type="boolean"&gt;false&lt;/loop_fs&gt;
      &lt;mount&gt;/boot&lt;/mount&gt;
      &lt;mountby config:type="symbol"&gt;id&lt;/mountby&gt;
      &lt;partition_id config:type="integer"&gt;131&lt;/partition_id&gt;
      &lt;partition_nr config:type="integer"&gt;1&lt;/partition_nr&gt;
      &lt;size&gt;200M&lt;/size&gt;
    &lt;/partition&gt;

    &lt;partition&gt;
      &lt;create config:type="boolean"&gt;true&lt;/create&gt;
      &lt;crypt_fs config:type="boolean"&gt;false&lt;/crypt_fs&gt;
      &lt;filesystem config:type="symbol"&gt;swap&lt;/filesystem&gt;
      &lt;filesystem_id config:type="integer"&gt;130&lt;/filesystem_id&gt;
      &lt;format config:type="boolean"&gt;true&lt;/format&gt;
      &lt;loop_fs config:type="boolean"&gt;false&lt;/loop_fs&gt;
      &lt;mount&gt;swap&lt;/mount&gt;
      &lt;mountby config:type="symbol"&gt;id&lt;/mountby&gt;
      &lt;partition_id config:type="integer"&gt;130&lt;/partition_id&gt;
      &lt;partition_nr config:type="integer"&gt;3&lt;/partition_nr&gt;
      &lt;size&gt;4G&lt;/size&gt;
    &lt;/partition&gt;
    &lt;partition&gt;
      &lt;create config:type="boolean"&gt;true&lt;/create&gt;
      &lt;crypt_fs config:type="boolean"&gt;false&lt;/crypt_fs&gt;
      &lt;filesystem config:type="symbol"&gt;ext4&lt;/filesystem&gt;
      &lt;filesystem_id config:type="integer"&gt;131&lt;/filesystem_id&gt;
      &lt;format config:type="boolean"&gt;true&lt;/format&gt;
      &lt;loop_fs config:type="boolean"&gt;false&lt;/loop_fs&gt;
      &lt;mount&gt;/&lt;/mount&gt;
      &lt;mountby config:type="symbol"&gt;id&lt;/mountby&gt;
      &lt;partition_id config:type="integer"&gt;131&lt;/partition_id&gt;
      &lt;partition_nr config:type="integer"&gt;2&lt;/partition_nr&gt;
      &lt;size&gt;max&lt;/size&gt;
    &lt;/partition&gt;

  &lt;/partitions&gt;
  &lt;type config:type="symbol"&gt;CT_DISK&lt;/type&gt;
  &lt;use&gt;all&lt;/use&gt;
&lt;/drive&gt;

</partitioning>

If I remove this part from my profile xml, the installation goes through with the default partitioning.
Any help to a working solution is highly appreciated.

Chitta

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