Re: Have to wipe LVM after repeated reinstall

[John Summerfield <debian herakles homelinux org>]

Christopher Boumenot wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have been noticing a problem with anaconda when repeatedly installing 
> a server with a disk configuration involving LVM.  Anaconda will fail 
> because it cannot create the volume group VolumeGroup00.  After looking 
> at the disk, it is clear why - the volume group still exists.  To get 
> around this I wrote a simple %pre script that destroys all PGs, VGs, and 
> LVs it knows about.  A copy of that script may be found at the bottom of 
> this email.  Is this the correct solution, or should Anaconda be 
> handling this?  I have verified this behavior on RHEL 4u2, and CentOS 4u4.
>
> ---> kickstart.cfg <----
> install
> text
> url --url http://192.168.1.88/centos/4.4-i386

Semonkey things this message might be an email scam:-)

Must be that URL statement.


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John

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