<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1>I’ve actually tried that in the past. It doesn’t work. But, for completeness, I tried it again… and I receive this error from anaconda:<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>Error Parsing Kickstart Config<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>The following error was found while parsing the kickstart configuration file:<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>The following problem occurred on line 2 of the kickstart file:<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>Tried to use undefined partition /dev/sdb in Volume Group specification<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>Any thoughts on that? I’m at a loss.<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>-Andy<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'>From: kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Moray Henderson (ICT) Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 11:39 AM To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart' Subject: RE: Use entire disk as PV.<o:p></o:p></div></div><o:p> </o:p>As well as generating /tmp/custom-part for kickstart, your %pre script also has to execute the Linux commands to create the PV. There were some examples given earlier in this thread:<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>lvm pvcreate /dev/sdb<o:p></o:p>echo "volgroup rootvg /dev/sdb –useexisting" >> /tmp/custom-part<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>ought to give you a volgroup called rootvg consisting of the whole of /dev/sdb. See <a href="http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html">31.4. Kickstart Options</a> if you haven’t found it already.<o:p></o:p><div><o:p> </o:p><o:p> </o:p>Moray.<o:p></o:p>“To err is human; to purr, feline.”<o:p></o:p></div><o:p> </o:p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'>From: Speagle, Andy [mailto:andy.speagle@wichita.edu] Sent: 09 May 2011 15:14 To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: Use entire disk as PV.<o:p></o:p></div></div><o:p> </o:p>Hi Team,<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>I’ve progressed a bit on this issue. What I’m presently trying to do is use a simple %pre script to generate a temp file with the commands to be included in the partitioning section of the kickstart. So, I run the %pre script, it creates /tmp/custom-part, which is included in the partitioning section using:<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>%include /tmp/custom-part<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>All of that works duckily… however anaconda refuses to use “rootvg” without it being defined using the “volgroup” command in the partitioning section. And sadly, I can’t get the “volgroup” command to work without a PV defined. If I try to specify the partition by passing the --useexisting and --onpart options to the “part” command… that fails too … so I continue to be stuck. This is what I do to have the /tmp/custom-part created:<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>echo "part /boot --fstype=ext3 --onpart=$BOOT" > /tmp/custom-part<o:p></o:p>echo "volgroup rootvg --useexisting" >> /tmp/custom-part<o:p></o:p>echo "logvol / --fstype=ext3 --name=root --vgname=rootvg --size=4096" >> /tmp/custom-part<o:p></o:p>echo "logvol swap --fstype=swap --name=swap --vgname=rootvg --size=2048" >> /tmp/custom-part<o:p></o:p>echo "logvol /var --fstype=ext3 --name=var --vgname=rootvg --size=2048" >> /tmp/custom-part<o:p></o:p>echo "logvol /var/tmp --fstype=ext3 --name=vartmp --vgname=rootvg --size=1024" >> /tmp/custom-part<o:p></o:p>echo "logvol /home --fstype=ext3 --name=home --vgname=rootvg --size=2048" >> /tmp/custom-part<o:p></o:p>echo "logvol /tmp --fstype=ext3 --name=tmp --vgname=rootvg --size=1024" >> /tmp/custom-part<o:p></o:p>echo "logvol /opt --fstype=ext3 --name=opt --vgname=rootvg --size=2048" >> /tmp/custom-part<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>Has anyone actually done this? Is there some magic I’m missing?<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>-Andy<o:p></o:p></div><o:p> </o:p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div>OM International Limited - Unit B Clifford Court, Cooper Way - Carlisle CA3 0JG - United Kingdom Charity reg no: 1112655 - Company reg no: 5649412 (England and Wales)<o:p></o:p></div></div></body></html>