KS won't partition drives

[Scott Weston]

do you have an example script using partd?



-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Diehl [mailto:tdiehl at rogueind.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 5:51 AM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: KS won't partition drives


On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, johnpaul wrote:

> hi
> 
> i tried the same thing for creating four partition, but in the kickstart
> installer code it has written such a way to handle only for the primary
> partitions
> 
> i have not looked in the source code
> if you find that please update me to
> 
> most probably it will be taken care by the loader.c of anaconda

Parted is your friend. run it in %pre to build whatever you like.

> 
> John
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Weston" <sweston at forbin.com>
> To: "'Discussion list about Kickstart'" <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:25 PM
> Subject: RE: KS won't partition drives
> 
> 
> > Thanks. So I guess what we have to use is /boot / and swap then huh? Is
> > there any other way to work around this?
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: johnpaul [mailto:johnpaulmp at amiindia.co.in]
> > Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 9:55 AM
> > To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> > Subject: Re: KS won't partition drives
> >
> >
> > hi
> >
> > The problem here is
> > you cannot ask the kernel to make more partitions than the first three
> > primary partitions
> > if the partitioning no is less than or equal to 3 then it will be done
> > automatically
> >
> > also
> > i have a slight different opinion for what james has written
> > actually we can do software raid for swap also
> >
> > regards
> > John
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Scott Weston" <sweston at forbin.com>
> > To: <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 7:32 PM
> > Subject: KS won't partition drives
> >
> >
> > > Can you see why when trying to do the ks install that it doesn't
> partition
> > > the drives accordingly? It wants to do it the normal way and asks me
for
> > > server/workstation/custom setup. Did I miss something here?
> > >
> > > I boot from cd using ks.cfg
> > >
> > >
> > > #Generated by Kickstart Configurator
> > > #platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T
> > > #System language
> > > lang en_US
> > > #Language modules to install
> > > langsupport en_US
> > > #System keyboard
> > > keyboard us
> > > #System mouse
> > > mouse genericwheelps/2
> > > #Sytem timezone
> > > timezone America/Chicago
> > > #Root password
> > > rootpw --iscrypted
> > > #Reboot after installation
> > > reboot
> > > #Install OS instead of upgrade
> > > install
> > > #Use CDROM installation media
> > > cdrom
> > > #System bootloader configuration
> > > bootloader --location=mbr
> > > #Clear the Master Boot Record
> > > zerombr yes
> > > #Partition clearing information
> > > clearpart --all --initlabel
> > > #Disk partitioning information
> > > part raid.01 --size 100 --ondisk hda
> > > part raid.02 --size 1000 --ondisk hda
> > > part raid.03 --size 3000 --ondisk hda
> > > part raid.04 --size 10000 --ondisk hda
> > > part raid.05 --size 6000 --ondisk hda
> > > part raid.06 --size 1 --grow --ondisk hda
> > > part raid.07 --size 100 --ondisk hdc
> > > part raid.08 --size 1000 --ondisk hdc
> > > part raid.09 --size 3000 --ondisk hdc
> > > part raid.10 --size 10000 --ondisk hdc
> > > part raid.11 --size 6000 --ondisk hdc
> > > part raid.12 --size 1 --grow --ondisk hdc
> > > raid /boot --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext3 raid.01 raid.07
> > > raid swap --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype swap raid.02 raid.08
> > > raid / --level=1 --device=md2 --fstype ext3 raid.03 raid.09
> > > raid /var --level=1 --device=md3 --fstype ext3 raid.04 raid.10
> > > raid /usr --level=1 --device=md4 --fstype ext3 raid.05 raid.11
> > > raid /home --level=1 --device=md5 --fstype ext3 raid.06 raid.12
> > > #System authorization infomation
> > > auth --useshadow --enablemd5
> > > #Network information
> > > network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0
> > > #Firewall configuration
> > > firewall --disabled
> > > #Do not configure XWindows
> > > skipx
> > > #Package install information
> > > %packages --resolvedeps
> > > @ Server Configuration Tools
> > > @ Administration Tools
> > > @ System Tools
> > >
> > >
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