On May 13, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Christian Horn wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 04:20:18PM -0400, Tony Schreiner wrote:
>> I'm new to cobbler....
> Welcome!
>
>> I've run an installation (CentOS 5.6) many times now on a machine and
>> each time it alternates creating labeling the disks as
>> LABEL=/
>> LABEL=/boot
>> etc...
>> and then next time
>> LABEL=/1
>> LABEL=/boot1
>> etc..
>
> My guess is that anaconda detects these bevore they get removed
> and uses different labels then for the new partitions.
>
>
> One could think of
> - creating a %pre script that removes the partitions, but also
> just a small possibility it helps you
> - easiest way is maybe in %post section to change the labels
> to what you expect.
>
>
>> part /boot --fstype ext3 --ondisk=sda --size 300
>> part / --fstype ext3 --ondisk=sda --size 25000
>> part swap --size 2048 --ondisk=sda
>> part /var --fstype ext3 --ondisk=sda --size 2000
>> part /tmp --fstype ext3 --ondisk=sda --size 2000
>> part /scratch --fstype ext3 --ondisk=sda --size 1 --grow
>
> Quite oldschool, logvol for volumes has --name .
>
>
>> I have not run into this before with kickstart, outside of cobbler.
>
> Its more of a kickstart issue.
>
>
> Christian
> _______________________________________________

Thanks, I'll probably follow your recommendation and use %post.

I would have thought it was a kickstart issue too, but I was using  
this particular kickstart file before, and never saw that happening.  
Might also be new with latest CentOS. I probably won't get around to  
testing.

Tony

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