How to get kickstart to use existing logical volumes?

[Gordon McDowall]

Hi Andrew
 
I had a similar issue when trying to do the same with a box running software
raid, I tried all sorts of different things before I eventually giving up.
What might be worth trying (although it didn't work for me) is to comment
out the partition info in the kickstart file, the kickstart process will
drop out at the partitioning point where you can manually configure the
partitions the way you want, once this has been done the kickstart install
will continue, after the install is complete and the machine has rebooted,
log in and take a look at the file /root/anaconda-ks.cfg to see how the
installer interpreted what you did with the partitions.   Like I said, using
this partition info on software raid 1 still did not resolve my issue but it
might be worth a go for logical volumes.   Sorry I can't be of more help.
 
Gordon McDowall

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From: Robinson, Andrew W. [mailto:Andrew.W.Robinson at mms.gov] 
Sent: 07 December 2004 22:59
To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart'
Subject: How to get kickstart to use existing logical volumes?



I'm installing RHEL 3 EL on a server where I have already built the file
systems. Some of the file systems are on physical volumes and some are on
logical volumes. Apparently kickstart will not let me use the existing
logical volumes, or I haven't figured out the syntax to do so. Will
kickstart let me specify existing logical volumes? If so, how?

 

Had I build the file systems with kickstart, here's how it would have
looked:

 

clearpart -linux

part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 -ondisk sda

part swap --size 8196 --ondisk sda

part / --fstype ext3 --size 1 grow --ondisk sda

 

part pv.01 --size 1 --grow -ondisk sdb

volgroup vg01 pv.01

logvol /opt --vgname=vg01 --size=30720 --name=opt

logvol /var --vgname=vg01 --size=30720 --name=var

logvol /var/ftp/pub --vgname=vg01 --size=61440 --name=pub

 

 

Having built the file systems in advance, I tried this syntax:

 

clearpart --none

part /boot --onpart=sda2

part swap --onpart=sda3

part / --onpart=sda4

part /opt --onpart=/dev/vg01/opt

part /var --onpart=/dev/vg01/var

Part /var/ftp/pub --onpart=/dev/vg01/pub

 

The Kickstart failed, complaining about the /dev/vg01. It did not like plain
vg01 when I took off the /dev/. Any suggestions on what it might like?

 

Thanks.

 

Andrew Robinson