[CentOS] questions on kickstart

Fri Mar 28 18:59:40 UTC 2008
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 at 2:43pm, Jerry Geis wrote

> I have 2 questions dealing with 2 different kickstart files.
>
> 1) my kickstart sections for RAID disk setup and kickstart reports it cannot 
> find sda. Why is that. sda is there and works.
>
> clearpart --all --initlabel
> part raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --onpart=sda1

Is sda already partitioned?

> raid / --bytes-per-inode=4096 --device=md0 --fstype="ext3" --level=1 raid.01 
> raid.03
> raid / --bytes-per-inode=4096 --device=md1 --fstype="ext3" --level=1 raid.02 
> raid.04

If that's cut and pasted from your ks file, then you're requesting the 
same partition twice...

> 2) my kickstart section for normally single disk setup. However with 2 disks 
> present in box
> it put / on sda and /home on sdb. Is there a way to put it ALL on sda??? If 
> there is a second disk I want it left alone.
>
> clearpart --all --initlabel
> part / --fstype ext3 --size=20000 --asprimary
> part swap --size=4000 --asprimary
> part /home --fstype ext3 --size=100 --grow --asprimary

Add --ondisk=sda to each line.

I refer to
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/en-US/RHEL510/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html
quite often...


-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF