how can i pass dynamic block device/partition info from %pre to part --onpart=?

[Mark Christian]

Seems almost obvious in hindsight. :)

Thank you.
Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Pablo Iranzo Gómez
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 12:53 AM
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Re: how can i pass dynamic block device/partition info from %pre
> to part --onpart=?
>
> Hi
> It's still easier.... put the partitioning portion on another file and
> %include it:
>
>
> echo "part /boot --onpart=$WHATEVER" >> /tmp/partitioning
>
> %include /tmp/partitioning
>
>
> Regards
> Pablo
>
> ----- Mensaje original -----
> > De: "Mark Christian" <MCHRISTI at altera.com>
> > Para: "kickstart-list at redhat.com" <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> > Enviados: Viernes, 7 de Septiembre 2012 9:45:07
> > Asunto: how can i pass dynamic block device/partition info from %pre to
>       part --onpart=?
> >
> > I'm using rhel5.6 anaconda, and attempting to align some systems with
> > SSD disks with parted, prior to kickstarting them.  My kickstart
> > contains the following:
> >
> > %include /tmp/pre_install_parted
> >
> > %pre
> > # use fdisk -l to determine if the block device is /dev/sda or
> > /dev/hda etc...
> > echo "parted -s $(fdisk -l | awk '/Disk/ {print $2}'|cut -d: -f1) --
> > mklabel msdos mkpart primary 2048s 514047s mkpart primary 514048s
> > -10M set 1 boot on" > /tmp/pre_install_parted
> >
> > The above is nice because whether I'm kickstarting on /dev/hda,
> > /dev/sda, etc, parted finds the block device and partitions the
> > drive starting at the 2048 sector.
> >
> > Now I'd like to somehow pass the block device info from %pre to the
> > partitioning portion of kickstart:
> >
> > part /boot --onpart=$(the output of the above fdisk command)1
> > part pv.0 --onpart=$(the output of the above fdisk command)2
> >
> > Is it possible to do this?  Can I somehow read the contents of a file
> > I create in %pre and use it as the argument to --onpart=?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Mark
> >
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