<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Hi Steve,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Glad you got it working. I did leave a little detail out which might help others. Our LVM partitions where on software raids, so I think it just made things overly complex. We have since moved to hardware raids to avoid this dependency in the future. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thank you,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ryan</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 29, 2007, at January 29, 2007 [10:11 AM], Steve Robson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From: "Ryan C. Spaulding" <<A href="mailto:rspaulding@arc.nasa.gov">rspaulding@arc.nasa.gov</A>></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi Steve,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">There is a ticket on this:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189123">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189123</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I was in the same position and we ended up just doing a full dump of the systems and starting over because of deadlines.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi Ryan,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Thanks for this; I confess to not having looked in bugzilla and have just done so (more below).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I was able to do a pseudo-hands-off install by specifying everything in a ks.cfg file *except* partitioning information, which of course dropped anaconda out to prompt for partitioning information.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>All the existing partitions were detected, both native and LVM and I dutifully edited each in turn, adding the mountpoints and specifying whether or not to reformat.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Kickstart then proceeded and installed as I wanted. This approach may help other correspondents wishing to upgrade no more than a few machines.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Having installed as described above I looked with anticipation at "/root/anaconda-ks.cfg" to see what I *should* have done.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The partitioning detail is here.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It remains to be seen whether this works.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I will test it and report back.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I note the absence of "--useexisting" as per bug 189123.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "># The following is the partition information you requested</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "># Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "># here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "># not guaranteed to work</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">#part /boot --fstype ext3 --onpart sda1</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">#part pv.4 --noformat --onpart sdc1</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">#part pv.3 --noformat --onpart sdb1</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">#part pv.2 --noformat --onpart sda2</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">#volgroup vg00 --pesize=32768 pv.2 pv.3 pv.4</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">#logvol /vol0 --noformat --fstype ext3 --name=lvol0 --vgname=vg00 --size=161440</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">#logvol /vol1 --noformat --fstype ext3 --name=lvol1 --vgname=vg00 --size=161440</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">#logvol /tmp --fstype ext3 --name=ltmp --vgname=vg00 --size=50016</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">#logvol swap --fstype swap --name=lswap --vgname=vg00 --size=32768</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">#logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=lroot --vgname=vg00 --size=9024</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Bug 150206 (opened on 3rd March 2005 and apparently untouched since!) more closely matches my issue</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150206">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150206</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Regards,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Steve</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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