There's just no way to be sure about drive enumeration. AFAIK, it's still default to prompt for partitioning if you don't specify it in your kickstart. I've always had good results with Anaconda not nuking drives unless you tell it to.
Owen Mann, Interactive Data Real Time Services 60 Codman Hill Rd, Boxborough, MA 01719 978-795-3758 [email protected] “We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” -Werner Heisenberg -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Cochran Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 6:29 PM To: cobbler-list Subject: [cobbler] How Anaconda Detects Hard Drives Greetings, I have a system which is essentially a network attached storage server. It has FreeNAS 8.2.0 running on it from a USB flash drive, and approximately 12 Tb of RAIDed storage across 9 hard drives. These drives are connected to two (2) IBM M1015 SAS host adapters. (Forgive me, I'm still new to network storage and didn't understand I can use an SAS expander in combination with the SAS HBAs until yesterday.) There is a 10th hard drive which is an SSD drive and which is not connected to anything right now -- not to the SAS HBAs and not to the SuperMicro motherboard's SATA ports. I want to connect this SSD drive to the box and then use Cobbler to install Fedora 17 specifically to the SSD. The Fedora installation will become a virtual machine host and will run a bunch of guests that do various things. In fact I want to turn FreeNAS into a vm. My question is, do I need to disconnect all the NAS hard drives in order to make certain that anaconda won't decide to format and use a storage drive instead of the SSD? I would rather not risk the data that is on those storage drives. Or is there a kickstart option to show me a list of the enumerated hard drives and let me pick the one for the Fedora 17 install? If I plug the SSD into the motherboard's SATA connector, will that automatically be assigned /dev/sda if no other SATA ports on the motherboard are in use? What if I plug in an SAS host adapter line instead? Thanks for your thoughts Bob Cochran _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler ******************************************************* This message (including any files transmitted with it) may contain confidential and/or proprietary information, is the property of Interactive Data Corporation and/or its subsidiaries, and is directed only to the addressee(s). If you are not the designated recipient or have reason to believe you received this message in error, please delete this message from your system and notify the sender immediately. An unintended recipient's disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of this message or any attachments is prohibited and may be unlawful. ******************************************************* _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
