On Thu, August 4, 2016 7:13 pm, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> Dear Experts, >> >> Could somebody point to kicstart HOWTO specific for CentOS 7? >> >> On CentOS 7 I somehow am always given human intervention questions >> about drive which defeats unattended ks install. >> >> At least one snag I hit consistently with CentOS 7 kickstart is: it >> drops me into human decision as far as wiping hard drive and >> creating custom (or default probably as well) partitioning scheme is >> concerned. Most likely it is me who needs to learn new trick (like >> "tricking smart macintosh into actually doing what you want done") >> as it looks like safety defeats my unattended kickstart installation >> (like on Windows: "Do you really - really want to do this?"). > > It would have been helpful to see the disk-specific part of your > kickstart file, but here's a snippet that's worked for me: > > clearpart --all --initlabel > zerombr > bootloader --location=mbr > part ... > part ... > > I've also noticed that LVM meta information will stick around during a > re-installation. So if you're reusing the names of volumes groups, you > might encounter an error. I do something like this in a %pre section: > > %pre --interpreter=/usr/bin/bash > # DANGER: will remove all volume groups > for VG in $(vgs -o vg_name --noheadings); do > vgremove -f "$VG" > done > %end > Thanks Paul, here is my unsuccessful (requiring human intervention) kistart disk related part: # System bootloader configuration #bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda # Darn, they changed grub password encryption standard #bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda --append="crashkernel=no rhgb quiet" --md5pass=$1$F/BHluSk$YticIZvEKa6Ckmw6GYTno. bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda --append="crashkernel=no rhgb quiet" # Partition clearing information clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda # Disk partitioning information part /boot --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=500 --asprimary part / --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=5000 --asprimary part /usr --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=30000 --asprimary part swap --fstype="swap" --ondisk=sda --size=4000 part /var --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=3000 part /tmp --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=1000 part /home --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=50000 part /data --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=100 --grow I never start with drives that contained any lvm leftovers, but thanks, I will add that part to my kickstart file. Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++