Specify just the first disk

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Tue Apr 27 20:46:38 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 27 April 2004 13:35, Brian Akins wrote:
> But, If I have two disks, it insists on putting the swap on the
> second.   I was using the ondisk stuff to force it to use the first
> disk.  Now I have to support hda, ida/whatever instead of just sda.
>  This is RHAS2.1, so using the pre and include trick I have found
> elsewhere doesnot work.

In the %pre section, use fdisk (or something like that) to probe which 
disks are present, awk out the actual disk

fdisk -l |awk '/^Disk/ {print $2}' |awk -F "/" '{print $3}' |sed -e 
's/://'

Something similar to that.  Then use this value (in a variable) for your 
--ondisk=${firstdisk}

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