Disk detection with kickstart

[Moray Henderson]

From: kk s [mailto:kks.kbase at gmail.com] 
Sent: 21 October 2012 22:51



Hi,

 

I have to provision the servers and all the servers are different disk types
like hda, sda, xvda. So I have issue to detect the disk type itself with
kickstart and make partitions. Does anyone have pre installation script that
will do this job?

 

There was something about this earlier in the year - I can't remember now if
it was on kickstart-list or anaconda-devel.  Someone was saying that if you
try to create partitions in %pre anaconda gets confused and can't find them.
Does anyone else remember that thread?  You always need to write the
partition instructions to a file and %include them back into your kickstart
file.  You used to detect hard drives in %pre with list-harddrives although
things change in anaconda so frequently it is difficult to give precise
instructions.  With a kickstart file on USB drive for example, you could end
up with the USB drive wiped and included in the Linux logical volume group
if you were not careful.  As a first step, create a kickstart that just
writes the output of list-harddrives to a file and see if it gives you
anything you can use.

 

 

Moray.

"To err is human; to purr, feline."
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