probe drives in during %pre in kickstart

[Chris Lumens]

> For RHEL5 kickstarts, we use the isys module (from anaconda) to probe which
> and how many drives are available in the system.
> However, when trying to install a RHEl6 system with, it fails in the pre
> part because the function hardDriveDict has been removed from isys.
> A googlesearch pointed me to the direction of minihal as a replacement for
> isys.DriveDict. However, currently it is not clear to me where I can find
> the minihal module and how I should import this module in the pre-phase of
> the kickstart.
> 
> Can anyone shed a light on this ?

You can use the list-harddrives command line program for this, or if you
are writing a script you can see what it does and duplicate it if
necessary.

- Chris