Sane default kickstarts that understand hard disk differences

Michael DeHaan mdehaan at redhat.com
Wed Jan 3 19:10:55 UTC 2007


Fellow Kickstarters,

Cobbler (http://cobbler.et.redhat.com) ships some default kickstart 
files that it provides for users for setting up fully automated installs 
(users who do not want to write their own kickstarts).   I am trying to 
improve those default kickstarts.

One of the things I want to do is ship a good default kickstart that, on 
the given system, does a reinstall of the OS using a sane partitioning 
layout, regardless of whether the boot drive is /dev/hda or /dev/sda, 
and regardless of size.   I don't want to assume IDE drives of a certain 
size, for instance.
That wouldn't be good.   A much larger SCSI drive should be usable too, 
and should result in a larger "/" partition.

Obviously this won't fit everyone's needs, but it is useful for 
basic/intermediate users.   Does anyone have any kickstarts that 
accomplish this?  I realize this is all documented to some extent, 
though if anyone can share some real life working fully automatic 
kickstarts that ignore drive size/type would be really great.

Thanks,

Michael DeHaan
 





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