Re: [CentOS] questions on kickstart
Jerry Geis wrote: I have 2 questions dealing with 2 different kickstart files. 1) my kickstart sections for RAID disk setup and kickstart reports it cannot find sda. Why is that. sda is there and works. clearpart --all --initlabel part raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --onpart=sda1 --size=2 I've had issues with onpart in the past. I had to use ondisk and trust the anaconda to put the partitions in a good place. 2) my kickstart section for normally single disk setup. However with 2 disks present in box it put / on sda and /home on sdb. Is there a way to put it ALL on sda??? If there is a second disk I want it left alone. clearpart --all --initlabel part / --fstype ext3 --size=2 --asprimary part swap --size=4000 --asprimary part /home --fstype ext3 --size=100 --grow --asprimary Use --ondisk to specify which disk. Also, if there is a 2nd disk, it will lose it's partition table because of your clearpart. You may want ot explore an ignoredisk command. -- Milton Calnek BSc, A/Slt(Ret.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 306-717-8737 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] questions on kickstart
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 at 2:43pm, Jerry Geis wrote I have 2 questions dealing with 2 different kickstart files. 1) my kickstart sections for RAID disk setup and kickstart reports it cannot find sda. Why is that. sda is there and works. clearpart --all --initlabel part raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --onpart=sda1 Is sda already partitioned? raid / --bytes-per-inode=4096 --device=md0 --fstype="ext3" --level=1 raid.01 raid.03 raid / --bytes-per-inode=4096 --device=md1 --fstype="ext3" --level=1 raid.02 raid.04 If that's cut and pasted from your ks file, then you're requesting the same partition twice... 2) my kickstart section for normally single disk setup. However with 2 disks present in box it put / on sda and /home on sdb. Is there a way to put it ALL on sda??? If there is a second disk I want it left alone. clearpart --all --initlabel part / --fstype ext3 --size=2 --asprimary part swap --size=4000 --asprimary part /home --fstype ext3 --size=100 --grow --asprimary Add --ondisk=sda to each line. I refer to http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/en-US/RHEL510/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html quite often... -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] questions on kickstart
I have 2 questions dealing with 2 different kickstart files. 1) my kickstart sections for RAID disk setup and kickstart reports it cannot find sda. Why is that. sda is there and works. clearpart --all --initlabel part raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --onpart=sda1 --size=2 part swap --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap" --onpart=sda2 --size=4000 part raid.02 --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --grow --onpart=sda3 --size=1 part raid.03 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --onpart=sdb1 --size=2 part swap --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap" --onpart=sdb2 --size=4000 part raid.04 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --grow --onpart=sdb3 --size=1 raid / --bytes-per-inode=4096 --device=md0 --fstype="ext3" --level=1 raid.01 raid.03 raid / --bytes-per-inode=4096 --device=md1 --fstype="ext3" --level=1 raid.02 raid.04 2) my kickstart section for normally single disk setup. However with 2 disks present in box it put / on sda and /home on sdb. Is there a way to put it ALL on sda??? If there is a second disk I want it left alone. clearpart --all --initlabel part / --fstype ext3 --size=2 --asprimary part swap --size=4000 --asprimary part /home --fstype ext3 --size=100 --grow --asprimary THanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
