First, I'd like to say thanks to everyone on the list for helping me with the problems I've had to date. I've finally made it through a success kickstart installation over the network that left the machine in a bootable state with more or less what I wanted on it. For those that were curious the resolution to my last problem where I had a python stack trace that ended with "TypeError: bad magic in header" was the result of the fact that I was trying to use an undocumented feature that appeared to be supported but was not -- I had seen something (anaconda? I dunno) try to failover to URLs like so: http://site/kickstart/disc1/RedHat and http://site/kickstart/disc2/RedHat after being unsuccessful at accessing a URL like http://site/kickstart/RedHat So I assumed that you could set something up in this format, and basically I just used the loop device to mount the two engmia iso images under disc1 and disc2 -- however apparently the portion of the installer that actually retrieves things doesn't like to see things in that directory structure so I ended up having to bite the bullet and copying the contents of the two iso images into a common directory so that the files could be accessed via the second URL listed above. Anyway, now I have a another question. We have a couple dozen servers that are all very similar but have 3 or 4 different drive configurations -- some have a single 9 gig drive, some have two 9 gig drives and some have a single 18g drive. I imagine I could probably set up a partitioning scheme with the growable stuff that gets everything into roughly the shape I'd like, but I would rather have different partitioning schemes for different systems based on what drives they have. If I'm not mistaken I can do this by having the pre-install scripts modify the /tmp/ks.cfg files after checking what drives are installed. Basically what I'm wondering is, does this seem like a good way of doing this or is there some other facility already provided for this sort of thing or is anyone aware of an obviously better way to do it? Thanks, - John
