Any idea how to avoid formatting my USB drive?

[Alasdair Young]

Thanks for this :)

In case anyone has the same problem, the exact command is:

ignoredisk --drives=sda


This solved my problem. Thank you once again!

- alasdair

Shabazian, Chip wrote:
> You simply tell kickstart to ignore the drive in the kickstart command
> section.  Assuming your usb drive is sda:
> 
> ignoredrisk drives=sda
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Alasdair Young
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:44 AM
> To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Any idea how to avoid formatting my USB drive?
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I am trying to set up an automatic install of FC6 using kickstart. I
> have a bootable USB stick with a syslinux.cfg file that points to a
> kickstart file located on a central server (via http).
> 
> Everything works well and is completely automated, however I cannot seem
> to work out how to stop the install from wanting to format my USB stick.
> 
> I have tried removing "--all" from the clearpart command below, or even
> just changing it to "--linux" without any luck.I've searched google, but
> I can't find any discussion of the issue.
> 
> Is there any way to specify a drive that should NOT be formatted, or any
> other way to work around this problem?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> - alasdair
> 
> 
> 
> I have the following kickstart file:
> 
> install
> url --url http://pxe/fedora/6/i386/core/os skipx text
> 
> lang en_US.UTF-8
> keyboard us
> network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip=10.22.22.1
> --netmask=255.255.255.0 network --device eth1 --bootproto dhcp rootpw
> --iscrypted (**whatever**) firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp authconfig
> --enableshadow --enablemd5 selinux --disabled timezone --utc GMT
> bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=hda
> 
> clearpart --all --drives=hda
> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=hda part pv.7 --size=0
> --grow --ondisk=hda volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.7 logvol /
> --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow
> logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00
> --size=1000 --grow --maxsize=1984
> 
> %packages
> @base
> 
> %post
> // various things here that are irrelevant.
> 
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