<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Itamar Heim <<a href="mailto:iheim@redhat.com">iheim@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> With all recent changes - is this only for menu based installs, or does this change the default behavior? i.e., wouldn't this hamper upgrades, which are based on the assumption we only upgrade the boot, and not overwrite the configuration. I expect that if I put a newer version of usb/cd/boot from pxe with autoinstall, that the configuration will be saved, and the node will auto upgrade, right? </blockquote></div> For the menu install, just don't choose partitioning and use local install directly - that will just overwrite the node image on existing disk partitions. For autoinstall disk is currently always reformatted, to allow disk reusage, I'll modify ovirt_init parameter like follows: ovirt_init=[usb|scsi[:serial#]|reuse|/dev/...] # local installation target disk # usb|scsi - select disk type, as reported by udev ID_BUS # serial# - select exact disk using serial number, as reported by # udev ID_SERIAL # reuse - use existing partitions, fails if they don't # /dev/... - use specified disk device (for cases when HAL doesn't handle it) # empty value - grab the first disk (/dev/?da)