how can i pass dynamic block device/partition info from %pre to part --onpart=?

[Pablo Iranzo Gómez]

Hi
It's still easier.... put the partitioning portion on another file and %include it:


echo "part /boot --onpart=$WHATEVER" >> /tmp/partitioning

%include /tmp/partitioning


Regards
Pablo

----- Mensaje original -----
> De: "Mark Christian" <MCHRISTI at altera.com>
> Para: "kickstart-list at redhat.com" <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> Enviados: Viernes, 7 de Septiembre 2012 9:45:07
> Asunto: how can i pass dynamic block device/partition info from %pre to	part --onpart=?
> 
> I'm using rhel5.6 anaconda, and attempting to align some systems with
> SSD disks with parted, prior to kickstarting them.  My kickstart
> contains the following:
> 
> %include /tmp/pre_install_parted
> 
> %pre
> # use fdisk -l to determine if the block device is /dev/sda or
> /dev/hda etc...
> echo "parted -s $(fdisk -l | awk '/Disk/ {print $2}'|cut -d: -f1) --
> mklabel msdos mkpart primary 2048s 514047s mkpart primary 514048s
> -10M set 1 boot on" > /tmp/pre_install_parted
> 
> The above is nice because whether I'm kickstarting on /dev/hda,
> /dev/sda, etc, parted finds the block device and partitions the
> drive starting at the 2048 sector.
> 
> Now I'd like to somehow pass the block device info from %pre to the
> partitioning portion of kickstart:
> 
> part /boot --onpart=$(the output of the above fdisk command)1
> part pv.0 --onpart=$(the output of the above fdisk command)2
> 
> Is it possible to do this?  Can I somehow read the contents of a file
> I create in %pre and use it as the argument to --onpart=?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Mark
> 
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