[CentOS] kickstart compat C7 -> C8

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Wed May 8 17:28:03 UTC 2019


On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 13:24, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > I still use the following kickstart partition scheme for C7 installations
> > (via virt-install):
> > Briefly, fixed size for /root and /boot, and the rest is filled up for
> > /srv.
> >
> > The same kickstart (despite that c7 uses vda, f29 uses sda) doesn't work
> > with Fedora29 (EL8). I get a "device is too small for new format" error.
> > Any hints?
> >
> > part /RESCUE --fstype="ext4" --ondisk=sda --size=1280 --label=RESCUE part
> > /boot --fstype="ext4" --ondisk=sda --size=512 --label=BOOT
> > part pv.0104 --fstype="lvmpv" --ondisk=sda --grow volgroup ee
> --pesize=4096
> > pv.1974 logvol / --fstype="ext4" --size=3072 --encrypted --label="ROOT"
> > --name=00 --vgname=ee
> > logvol /srv --fstype="ext4" --percent=100 --grow --encrypted
> --label="SRV"
> > --name=01 --vgname=ee
> >
> If I'm reading that correctly - haven't worked on a kickstart in years -
> I'd start by increasing root to 1024 (1M) for /boot.
>
>
Yep. Minimum for that is going to be about the same as your RESCUE. The
other would just be to confirm that the sda has space and nothing still on
it which it was trying to work around.



>        mark
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