beta fc 15 strange read error on USB stick drive

[Steve Robson]

floydsmith at aol.com wrote:
>
> I downloaded the Beta on May 1. It uses anaconda 15.27 (11:555:41). I
> boot off
> a sandisk FAT32 32GB USB stick (which has a single partition) and with my
> kickstart file is on that drive.
> Intermittantly (about 50% of the time over the last 6 times I have tried)
> immediately after the probing the ethernet Network device screen (device
> is from
> my kickstart file) (and hence AFTER my kickstart file has been read in)
> I get
> a screen that says:
> My sandisk drive may contain data... We could not detect partitions...
> And it presents a box which says:
> Apply my choice to all such devices
> (Which I check)
> And below that two choices:
> Yes, discard data...
> No, keep data...
> Which I select.
> The Examining Storage Devices screen then appears and the install always
> proceeds and finishes OK after that.
> Is there any way I can specify these two selections in my kickstart file.
> I don't ZERO my MSB and I don't clear the partions (just use a single onpart
> to format an existing ext3 partition) so it seems that it should be able to
> figure that I don't want any other data destroyed (and not the one my
> kickstart file is on).
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> Floyd,

Not sure if it's FC-compatible but the "ignoredisk" kickstart directive 
might be suitable.  Something like:

   ignoredisk --drives=drive1,drive2,...
   where driveN is one of sda, sdb,..., hda,... etc.

or:
   ignoredisk --only-use=sda
   which specifies a list of disks for the installer to use. All other
   disks are ignored. For example, to use disk sda during installation
   and ignore all other disks.

Lifted from 
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html 


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   Regards,
   Steve

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