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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Alan Pevec
[mailto:apevec@gmail.com] <br>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Itamar Heim <<a
href="mailto:iheim@redhat.com">iheim@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>With all recent changes - is this only for menu based
installs, or does this<br>
change the default behavior?<br>
i.e., wouldn't this hamper upgrades, which are based on the assumption we<br>
only upgrade the boot, and not overwrite the configuration.<br>
I expect that if I put a newer version of usb/cd/boot from pxe with<br>
autoinstall, that the configuration will be saved, and the node will auto<br>
upgrade, right?<o:p></o:p></p>
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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.<br>
<br>
For autoinstall disk is currently always reformatted, to allow disk reusage,
I'll modify ovirt_init parameter like follows:<br>
<br>
ovirt_init=[usb|scsi[:serial#]|reuse|/dev/...]<br>
# local installation target disk<br>
# usb|scsi - select disk type, as reported by udev ID_BUS<br>
# serial# - select exact disk using serial number, as reported by<br>
# udev
ID_SERIAL<br>
# reuse - use existing partitions, fails if they don't<br>
# /dev/... - use specified disk device (for cases when HAL doesn't handle
it)<br>
# empty value - grab the first disk (/dev/?da)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><i><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>[IH] this means we
will need different configuration for a new install and for an upgrade. So we
need an option that will use existing partitions if possible, but will create
them if not.</span></i></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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