[CentOS] kickstart compat C7 -> C8

mark

m.roth at 5-cent.us
Wed May 8 17:20:23 UTC 2019


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.

       mark




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