Please disregard. It was a hardware problem. Sorry for bugging the list.
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Jens Skott <[email protected]> wrote: > You could do a pre script that checks the size of your disk and saves it > to a variable? Think i did something simular with a script checking memsize > then setting swap accordingly. Have to check when i get to work tommorrow > unless someone smarter then me replies during the night :) > > Mobile Jens > > 13 nov 2012 kl. 21:38 skrev Mike Wilson <[email protected]>: > > Thanks for your response. > > When you do a manual install of CentOS, you have the option to just clear > all existing partitions, then use all available space with the default > layout. Anaconda just does it for you. Is there an option to do that via > kickstart? I don't want to have to change the kickstart profile for every > different size drive. > > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Jens Skott <[email protected]>wrote: > >> This is how my KS looks like. >> But my disks are Think provisioned in vmware so i assign a 4gb vmdk >> for the sda. I know I had issues with drives allmost exaclty the size >> of the partitions so i added an extra 500 megs to the system disks in >> vmware and it worked like a charm. >> >> clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda >> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=150 >> part swap --size=1024 >> part pv.01 --size=1 --grow >> volgroup vg_root pv.01 >> logvol / --vgname=vg_root --size=1000 --name=lv_root --fstype=ext4 >> logvol /var --vgname=vg_root --size=500 --name=lv_var --fstype=ext4 >> logvol /home --vgname=vg_root --size=1000 --name=lv_home --fstype=ext4 >> logvol /usr --vgname=vg_root --size=1000 --name=lv_usr --fstype=ext4 >> >> Jens Skott >> Tel: +46-8-5142 4396 >> Schibsted Centralen IT >> >> >> >> 2012/11/13 Mike Wilson <[email protected]>: >> > First, let me apologize in advance if this is in the wiki and I just >> > overlooked it. (But I did look) >> > >> > I'm setting up a kickstart profile. Can someone point me towards some >> sort >> > of reference on how to configure the partitioning? I thought I had it >> > correct, but I'm trying to kickstart a different machine (with a >> different >> > size disk) and it errored out saying that there isn't enough space left >> for >> > /boot. >> > >> > All I want it to do, is to erase any existing partitions, and use the >> full >> > disk with the default layout. I want this regardless of how big the >> disk is. >> > There must be a simple way to do that, right? >> > >> > Here is what I had in the kickstart profile | System Details | >> partitioning: >> > >> > clearpart --all >> > part /boot --fstype=ext3 --size=200 >> > part pv.01 --size=1000 --grow >> > part swap --size=1000 --maxsize=2000 >> > volgroup myvg pv.01 >> > logvol / --vgname=myvg --name=rootvol --size=1000 --grow >> > >> > This was set by doing a manual install of CentOS (with the default >> layout) >> > and then copying the partition section of /root/anaconda-ks.cfg. >> > >> > I then changed this to just >> > >> > clearpart --all >> > autopart >> > >> > I got the same result: >> > >> > "Could not allocate requested partitions: >> > >> > Partitioning failed: Could not allocate partitions as primary >> partitions. >> > Not enough space left to create partition for /boot." >> > >> > I realize this isn't necessarily specific to kickstart. Is there any >> > documentation out there on anaconda? My googling led to trying >> autopart. So >> > far I haven't found any other ideas. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Spacewalk-list mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Spacewalk-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list >> > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list >
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