On 29/04/2008, at 6:27 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > But when I try to install CentOS 5.1 via kickstart, anaconda > complains that "You have not defined a root partition (/), which is > required for installation of CentOS to continue". Has anyone > successfully installed CentOS 5.X via kickstart and preserved at > least one partition on a logical volume, and if so, could you please > share your kickstart file? Alfred, This worked fine for me on a 4.6 kickstart I did recently. I can't remember whether I tried it on 5.x or not, sorry. bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda part /boot --onpart=sda1 --fstype=ext3 part swap --onpart=sda2 --fstype=swap volgroup vg --useexisting logvol / --useexisting --name=root --vgname=vg --fstype=ext3 Because the volgroup already exists you don't need to define a PV for it. Hope this helps, although it doesn't look much different to your config! Regards, Tom