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

[Troy Dawson]

Not quite sure what this has to do with spacewalk other than spacewalk 
will let you do kickstarts.  You didn't mention what OS you were trying 
to do the kickstart for.  There are different options for RHEL3,4,5,6 
and the Fedora's.

But I finally gave up with fixing my kickstart and just figured out when 
to pull out the usb drive before the installer sucks it in as part of 
the system drives.

I pull the usb drive out right when the screen turns blue to black 
before the graphics come up.  But that is on a RHEL5 (actually SL5) system.

Troy

Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I usually do CD based kickstarts (which work fine) but recently tried
> 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
> starts formatting the main partition? Actually I'm not even sure if it
> didn't fdisk the boot partition onto the USB stick and the main LVM
> partition onto the system HDD near the very beginning of the kickstart
> so I don't think pulling out the USB stick would have mattered. Anyone
> have any suggestions? Here's my kickstart drive configuration:
> 
> ####
> partition /boot --fstype=ext3 --size=200
> partition pv.01 --size=1000 --grow
> partition swap --size=2000   --maxsize=2000
> volgroup myvg pv.01
> logvol / --vgname=myvg --name=rootvol --size=1000 --grow
> ####
> 
> Thanks,
> Sabuj Pattanayek
> 
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