1st disk only automated install

[Phil Savoie]

Aha!  I see!  Thank you Maarten.  You and Kris have certainly nailed the 
answer.  Thank you both!

Phil

On Monday 12 November 2007, Broekman, Maarten wrote:
> Phil,
> 	In the %pre section of your kickstart script, you can check to
> see if there is data in various /proc files (/proc/partitions or
> /proc/diskstats for example) and based on the device entries there, set
> up the drive partitions...
>
> # cat /proc/partitions
> major minor  #blocks  name
>
>  104     0   35561280 cciss/c0d0
> ...
>  104    16  143367120 cciss/c0d1
> ...
>  104    32   35561280 cciss/c0d2
> ...
>
> Like Kris, I have an HP hardware RAID controller in the way, but you
> should see your pata/sata/ide drives in here as well.  Based on that you
> can write out a file during the %pre and then %include it for your disk
> partitioning.
>
> I have the following line in my ks.cfg:
>
> %include /tmp/disk_map
>
>
> Then in the %pre section, I check for the disk driver module (cciss,
> BusLogic, mptscsi) and the size of the disk before writing
> /tmp/disk_map.
>
> if   lsmod | grep ^cciss    ; then
> 	# Check sizes
> 	if size1 then
> 		DRIVE_TYPE="a"
> 	elif size2 then
> 		DRIVE_TYPE="b"
> 	...
> 	fi
> elif lsmod | grep ^BusLogic ; then
> 	DRIVE_TYPE="n"
> elif lsmod | grep ^mptscsi ; then
> 	DRIVE_TYPE="z"
> fi
>
> case DRIVE_TYPE in
>          "a")
>             cat > /tmp/disk_map <<EOF
> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100  --asprimary --ondisk cciss/c0d0
> part swap  --fstype swap --size $SWAP --asprimary --ondisk cciss/c0d0
> part /     --fstype ext3 --size 3072             --ondisk cciss/c0d0
> part /var  --fstype ext3 --size 3072             --ondisk cciss/c0d0
> part /tmp  --fstype ext3 --size 2048             --ondisk cciss/c0d0
> part /opt  --fstype ext3 --size 4096 --grow      --ondisk cciss/c0d0
> EOF
>          ;;
> 	...
> esac
>
> Maarten Broekman
> Email: maarten.broekman at fmr.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Phil Savoie
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 8:00 AM
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: 1st disk only automated install
>
> Thanks Kris for your reply.  This would work on a case by case basis.
> However, what I am looking for is a generic setting so that one
> kickstart
> file can be indiscriminately used against all of my machines.
>
> And this is what I am not sure how to do.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Phil
>
> On Sunday 11 November 2007, Kristoffer Knigga wrote:
> > You can specify what drive partitions are made on using the "--ondisk
> > <device name>" option.  See below:
> >
> > part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 --asprimary --ondisk cciss/c0d0
> > part swap --size 24000 --asprimary --ondisk cciss/c0d0
> > part / --fstype ext3 --size 20000 --asprimary --ondisk cciss/c0d0
> >
> > Note that I'm using HP RAID cards, so I get strange device names.  It
> > would probably be something like "--ondisk sda" in most cases.
> >
> > Kris
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Phil Savoie
> > Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 8:14 PM
> > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > Subject: 1st disk only automated install
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have an environment where I have a number of machines that are
> > pata/sata/ide.  That is to say, each of these machines have 2 drives
> > installed.  These drives could be a pair pata or sata or ide drives in
> > each
> > box.
> >
> > My question is; is there a way, using kickstart to confine the install
> > to only
> > the normal boot drive and not have the install put any filesystems on
> > the
> > other drive?
> >
> > I have found that kickstart is using both drives on the install where
>
> I
>
> > only
> > really want one disk to have the whole installed OS on it leaving the
> > other
> > untouched.  I guess the kicker would be that I also need to have this
> > same
> > behaviour on the rest of my boxes which could be pata/sata/ide.
> >
> > Any help on this would be appreciated, please.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Phil
> >
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