Way to "fool" anaconda to do what you want

[Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>]

If you want anaconda to do something different when it calls out to an
external program, here's a way to trick it.  I wanted to create a
logical volume with 2 stripes (if you specify multiple physical volumes,
anaconda will just create a concatenated volume group).

In the %pre section of my kickstart file, I put:

########################################################################
cp /usr/sbin/lvcreate /tmp/lvcreate.bin
cat > /tmp/lvcreate <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
exec /tmp/lvcreate.bin -i 2 -I 1024 \$@
EOF
chmod +x /tmp/lvcreate
mount /tmp/lvcreate /usr/sbin/lvcreate -o bind
########################################################################

This copies the lvcreate binary, creates a shell script wrapper, and
then bind mounts the shell script on top of the original binary.

This can be used to change anything that anaconda doesn't handle
internally.

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Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.