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On 11/30/11 02:30 AM, I wrote from a different account:
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Re: Alligning partitions</td>
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<div>I am building Red Hat 5.4 and 5.5 boxes on VMWare and some
on HP blades with SAN attached storage. I need to do
partition alignment during build which I understand is done
automatically in Red Hat 6's version of anaconda and later but
not yet in 5.4, 5.5. So a number of questions:</div>
<div>* I could not find an option for part in the docs (<a
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that easily allow me to set a sector offset. I have found a
number of ways to do this but was wondering if there is an
hidden option to do this using part. Currently I am using
fdisk to create a partition starting at sector 64 rather than
63 for SAN storage and doing the same for VMWare boxes. <br>
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I *thought* (check with VMware) that after Vsphere 3 you wouldn't
need to align the partitions any more--but the last time I checked
was in 2009, so I could be seriously wrong. Or you could be
running V3, in which case...<br>
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I was wrong about this, at least in 4.0. <br>
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<div>* How can I easily debug my kickstart? I currently change
the kickstart and then reboot the physical server but that is
very painful as it has to go through all of the bios checks
etc and then sometime I forget to press F12... I tried adding
a sleep 100000 to my pre scripts which works and allows me to
run some commands on the command line but I am not sure how to
"reparse" the kickstart file to test whether new settings
works.</div>
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I usually use VMware Workstation/Player to debug my kickstart
scripts, with lots of redirecting to different log files. This
lets me sit in my somewhat comfy chair in a slightly quieter
machine room (my desk is on a raised floor, but most of the
servers are in the other room) and watch the installs while I do
other things. Then when I've got it mostly right I run it on the
real hardware, which would (eventually) be a known transform. <br>
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One of my co-workers pointed me to an rpm called "pykickstart" that
contains ksvalidator. <br>
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It seems to work as it gave me the same errors on my ks.cfg as
anaconda did. <br>
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I still don't understand why --resolution and --depth don't take any
options in 6.1, when they don't make sense without options. <br>
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Regards,<br>
Petro.<br>
:wq<br>
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