installing to USB storage

[James_Martin at ao.uscourts.gov]

So I think I've isolated the block of Anaconda code that skips over 
removable stoarge.  The following is from partUtils.py :

    def openDevices (self, intf = None, initAll = 0,
                     zeroMbr = 0, clearDevs = []):
        """Open the disks on the system and skip unopenable devices."""
        if self.disks:
            return
        for drive in self.driveList ():
            if drive in DiskSet.skippedDisks and not initAll:
                continue
            deviceFile = isys.makeDevInode(drive)
            if isys.driveIsRemovable(drive) and not flags.expert:
                DiskSet.skippedDisks.append(drive)
                continue


So I'm assuming I can just comment out DiskSet.skippedDisks.append(drive). 
 I tried doing this, and placing my updated partedUtils.py  in my NFS 
installation tree under RHupdates/ and it doesn't seem to be getting used 
during the install.

Any ideas?




James S. Martin, RHCE
Contractor
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Washington, DC
(202) 502-2394

kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 11/29/2005 11:40:04 AM:

> I'm trying to kickstart a RHEL installation directly to a USB Key... I 
> found that you can't partition a USB key via anconda unless the Expert 
> mode is enabled (via "linux expert") on the syslinux command line. 
> Unfortunately, it seems I can't do a kickstart and expert mode, so I 
have 
> to do these USB key installations by hand..  Is there anyway around 
this? 
> Can I force anaconda to partition USB external storage devices without 
> being in expert mode?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> James S. Martin, RHCE
> Contractor
> Administrative Office of the United States Courts
> Washington, DC
> (202) 502-2394
> 
> 
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