As a hint, If you run through the interactive setup, I usually steal the 
kickstart file out of the root home directory and compare it to the one you can 
view via the web to see if I got all the options I needed at least for the 
first few passes. 

It's also a great method to validate that the templates and snippets actually 
work properly without having to waste time booting a test system. 

James

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On 2012-09-11, at 4:23 PM, Bai Shen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Okay, I was wrong.  It lists all four drives.  I didn't realize it was a 
> scrollable list.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Bai Shen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Okay, so I changed the snippet to be after the %pre instead of before.  Now 
> it's giving me an interactive prompt asking if I want to use the entire drive 
> or just the free space.  It also only lists sdb and sdc.
> 
> However, when I did autopart, all four drives showed up.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Corey Kovacs <[email protected]> wrote:
> install anaconda on a running machine....
> 
> /usr/share/anaconda/list-harddrives-stub
> 
> The "set" in the partitioning snippet is not a cheetah macro command, it's a 
> shell command. The partitioning snippet gets executed as a %pre section in 
> the kickstart. 
> 
> -C
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Bai Shen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I tried doing that and it says that set is not a recognized command.  I put a 
> # in front like I did for the other set and now it can't find the kickstart 
> file.  Not sure if it's related or not.
> 
> Also, how do you run list-harddrives-stub manually?  It doesn't show up as a 
> command on my system.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Corey Kovacs <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you install anaconda and run list-harddrives-stub manually, you'll see 
> what it's doing.
> 
> Basically, it returns something like this.
> sda 1907729.08594
> sdb 1907729.08594
> sdc 1907729.08594
> 
> the set $(list-harddrives) bit of code, assigns these values to the $1 $2 $3 
> ... variables. So when you need to refer to the drives in the partitioning 
> snippet code, you can just refer to the first drive and $d1, then second as 
> $d2 etc.
> 
> Remember to escape the "$" in the snippet tho..
> 
> for example the snippet code would look like this....
> set \$(list-harddrives)
> let numd=\$#/2 # Number of harddrives
> d1=\$1 # Device for first drive
> d2=\$3 # Device for first drive
> d3=\$5 # Device for first drive
> 
> etc...
> 
> Nice thing about this is it lets you make some decisions based on the 
> existence of the "d" variables. So if "$d3" exists on a certain machine, add 
> it to the config, otherwise, don't include it's partitioning info etc. Quite 
> handy
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> 
> -C
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Bai Shen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can you explain that in more detail?  I'm not quite sure I follow what it's 
> supposed to do.  Do I continue with $3 for the second drive and $4 for the 
> second drives size?
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Pablo Iranzo Gómez 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why don't you use:
> 
> set $(list-harddrives)
> let numd=$#/2 # Number of harddrives
> d1=$1 # Device for first drive
> S1=$2 # size for first drive
> 
> and then "--ondisk=$d1" ??
> 
> Regards
> Pablo
> 
> 
> De: "Owen Mann" <[email protected]>
> Para: "cobbler mailing list" <[email protected]>
> Enviados: Lunes, 10 de Septiembre 2012 18:02:11
> Asunto: Re: [cobbler] Different partitioning requirements for        
> identical        blades
> 
> 
> Are you sure there /is/ a /dev/sda? If it’s an HP, try "cciss/c0d0".
> 
>  
> 
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> From: [email protected] 
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> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 11:38 AM
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> Subject: Re: [cobbler] Different partitioning requirements for identical 
> blades
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>  
> 
> How do you configure multiple disks when not using raid?  I'm trying to 
> specify --ondisk=sda and cobbler keeps giving me an error saying bad keyword 
> '/dev/sda'
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:15 PM, James Clendenan <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Personally I would just use a tag and in the partitioning section test if 
> that tag is set or not. It gets a bit more interesting when you start merging 
> roles so keeping each of the tags as atomic as possible is useful. But I have 
> had to do this when doing bake offs with different raid configurations in the 
> past and it works well.
> 
> James
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> On 2012-09-06, at 7:11 PM, Bai Shen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I have a blade server that I'm building using cobbler to be a hadoop 
> > cluster.  Since the data nodes like seeing the individual drives, I'm going 
> > to partition those differently than the other nodes.
> >
> > Is there a recommended method to handling the parititions?  Everything else 
> > about the kickstart will be the same.
> >
> > Thanks.
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