RE: Sane default kickstarts that understand hard disk differences

["Shabazian, Chip" <Chip Shabazian bankofamerica com>]

I've got a great way that I've been doing this for years.  It works for
all types of drives, scsi, ide, even the cciss scsi controllers in HP DL
Servers.

In %pre, I figure out what drives exist in the system, and write out a
partion scheme based on one or two drives:


%pre

# Determine how many drives we have
set $(list-harddrives)
let numd=$#/2
d1=$1
d2=$3

if [ $numd -ge 2 ] ; then
cat << EOF >> /tmp/partinfo
part pv.01 --size=1 --grow --fstype=ext3 --ondisk=$d1
volgroup volgrp01 pv.01
part pv.02 --size=1 --grow --fstype=ext3 --ondisk=$d2
volgroup volgrp02 pv.02
#HOWEVER_YOU_WANT_TO_PARTITION
EOF

else

cat << EOF >> /tmp/partinfo
part pv.01 --size=1 --grow --fstype=ext3 --ondisk=$d1
volgroup volgrp01 pv.01
#HOWEVER_YOU_WANT_TO_PARTITION
EOF

fi

I then %include the partitioning back up in the command section:

%include /tmp/partinfo 

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces redhat com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Michael DeHaan
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:11 AM
To: kickstart-list redhat com
Subject: Sane default kickstarts that understand hard disk differences

Fellow Kickstarters,

Cobbler (http://cobbler.et.redhat.com) ships some default kickstart
files that it provides for users for setting up fully automated installs

(users who do not want to write their own kickstarts).   I am trying to 
improve those default kickstarts.

One of the things I want to do is ship a good default kickstart that, on
the given system, does a reinstall of the OS using a sane partitioning
layout, regardless of whether the boot drive is /dev/hda or /dev/sda, 
and regardless of size.   I don't want to assume IDE drives of a certain

size, for instance.
That wouldn't be good.   A much larger SCSI drive should be usable too, 
and should result in a larger "/" partition.

Obviously this won't fit everyone's needs, but it is useful for 
basic/intermediate users.   Does anyone have any kickstarts that 
accomplish this?  I realize this is all documented to some extent,
though if anyone can share some real life working fully automatic
kickstarts that ignore drive size/type would be really great.

Thanks,

Michael DeHaan
 


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