redhat-list Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17

[Imed Chihi]

On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 12:00 -0400, redhat-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:12:27 -0400
> From: Phil Savoie <psavoie1783 at rogers.com>
> Subject: How to constrain the install through kickstart to one drive
> To: "'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <200709181312.27884.psavoie1783 at rogers.com>
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> 
> HI All,
> 
> I have a number of machines I would like to install using kickstart.  This 
> isn't the problem as this I know how to do...but, some pc's have more than 
> one HD installed.  Some of the pc's have pata, sata or ide drives; that is a 
> mixture of all I have mentioned.  In order to combat the problem of kickstart 
> not working on all types of disks, I took out the  ondisk=[s|h]da.  This 
> works well on a pc with a single disk.  With more than one disk, the second 
> disk also get a filesystem.  I don't want the second disk touched at all.  Is 
> there a way to do this?

You may want to consider the "ignoredisk" directive. See
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_42_8604.shtm and
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_42_8927.shtm

 -Imed

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Imed Chihi - عماد الشيحي