[Spacewalk-list] kickstarting from a USB stick/drive without the installer formatting the USB drive

Sabuj Pattanayek sabujp at gmail.com
Fri May 28 17:00:55 UTC 2010


Hi,

It seems using:

ignoredisk --drives=sda

would do what I want, but what if for some reason I use a CD at some
point? Wouldn't it then not even try to use the first SATA drive in
the system? Is there some other method to have the installer
completely ignore drives from which the target system was booted?

Thanks,
Sabuj Pattanayek

> to switch to a USB stick/drive based kickstart. Everything was going
> fine until the installer got to the step where it started formatting
> the boot partition. The light on the USB stick started blinking and
> then it formatted the USB stick (verified when I put it back into the
> system where I used unetbootin to put the ISO onto the stick). Is
> there something that can be done in the kickstart setup to get it to
> not do this or do I just have to pull the USB stick out after it




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