Ross S. W. Walker wrote on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:49:37 -0400: > Everything looks OK except you list the PV twice here, maybe > that's the problem? Just remove the first pv.2 and see if > that does it. Oh, well, yeah, one of those errors you don't see even after looking ten times at it. I actually had this line originally volgroup VolGroup00 --noformat --pesize=32768 pv.2 and removed the --nofomrat after reading the documentation and added the pv.2 without noticing it was already at the end. This gotta work now, thanks! > Here is the typical desktop kickstart partitioning I use: > > clearpart --linux --initlabel --drives=sda > part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=sda --asprimary > part pv.0 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda > volgroup CentOS --pesize=32768 pv.0 > logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=root --vgname=CentOS --size=4096 --grow > logvol swap --fstype swap --name=swap --vgname=CentOS --size=1024 Using names instead of the default numbering makes sense, at the moment I'm still playing with LVM as I used to use physical partitions in the past. I have a question in this context: uUsing kickstart for physical machines is the next step I want to try. I need a tftp server for this. Which one do you use? I see atftp recommended everywhere and all tutorials are based on it, but CentOS 5 comes with tftpd and there's no atftp package for CentOS 5 on rpmforge. > > I typically switch to a swap file after install because it's easier > to customize, and with today's kernels and file systems it has been > shown that performance is equivalent between swap files and swap > partitions. Too bad kickstart doesn't have a option to create a > swap file... I wasn't aware you can use a swap file. Thanks for the information, just looked it up in the documentation. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com