<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> <div> <div> <div>You might want to check out this tool for aligning:</div> <div><br> </div> <div><a href="http://nickapedia.com/2011/11/03/straighten-up-with-a-new-uber-tool-presenting-uberalign/">http://nickapedia.com/2011/11/03/straighten-up-with-a-new-uber-tool-presenting-uberalign/</a></div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div> <div><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">-- <br> </span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Tom Callahan<br> </b>Technology, Development and Services (TDS)<br> 410-229-1361 Tel<br> 410-229-1512 Fax <br> <font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="CallahanT@TESSCO.com">CallahanT@TESSCO.com</a></u></font> <br> <font color="#0065CB">Visit TESSCO.com</font> <<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://">http://</a>www.tessco.com/</u></font>> <br> </span></font></font><font face="Arial"><font color="#0065CB"><span style="font-size:11pt"><b>TESSCO<br> </b></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>Your Total Source® for Everything Wireless<br> </i></span></font><font color="#0065CB"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt">Network Infrastructure Equipment</span></font></font><font size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt"> <<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.tessco.com/products/productHierarchy.do?supertab=L01">http://www.tessco.com/products/productHierarchy.do?supertab=L01</a></u></font>> | <font color="#0065CB">Mobile Devices & Accessories</font> <<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.tessco.com/products/productHierarchy.do?supertab=L02">http://www.tessco.com/products/productHierarchy.do?supertab=L02</a></u></font>> | <font color="#0065CB">Installation, Test, Equipment & Supplies</font> <<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.tessco.com/products/productHierarchy.do?supertab=L03">http://www.tessco.com/products/productHierarchy.do?supertab=L03</a></u></font>></span></font></font> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div><br> </div> <span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"> <div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"> <span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Petro <<a href="mailto:petro@cpetro.us">petro@cpetro.us</a>><br> <span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Discussion list about Kickstart <<a href="mailto:kickstart-list@redhat.com">kickstart-list@redhat.com</a>><br> <span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:20:34 +0930<br> <span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span><<a href="mailto:kickstart-list@redhat.com">kickstart-list@redhat.com</a>><br> <span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re:Aligning partitions<br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">On 11/30/11 02:30 AM, I wrote from a different account: <blockquote cite="mid:mailman.34.1322586007.3296.kickstart-list@redhat.com" type="cite"> <table class="header-part1" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <div class="headerdisplayname" style="display:inline;"></div> Re: Alligning partitions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><br> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <blockquote cite="mid:CAATm_0qALTd0n4dHttcKpgTwhWx1xN+CULZ+3+kfm94ASaBpTw@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> Hi <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 moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#part_or_partition">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#part_or_partition</a>) 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> </div> </blockquote> <br> 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> </blockquote> I was wrong about this, at least in 4.0. <br> <br> <blockquote cite="mid:mailman.34.1322586007.3296.kickstart-list@redhat.com" type="cite"> <blockquote cite="mid:CAATm_0qALTd0n4dHttcKpgTwhWx1xN+CULZ+3+kfm94ASaBpTw@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <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> </blockquote> <br> 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> </blockquote> <br> One of my co-workers pointed me to an rpm called "pykickstart" that contains ksvalidator. <br> <br> It seems to work as it gave me the same errors on my ks.cfg as anaconda did. <br> <br> 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> <br> <br> Regards,<br> Petro.<br> :wq<br> <br> </div> </div> _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com"> Kickstart-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</a></span> </body> </html>