On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, rpjday wrote: > > in aid of designing good ks docs, anyone got a *good* example for > a sample %pre section? the red hat course rh133 shows the example: > > %pre > mknod /tmp/hda > dd if=/mnt/source/pub/mbr.img of=/tmp/hda > > which will create disk partitions simply by dumping a pre-configured MBR > with partition table to the hard disk. while this may be a valid example, > will it adequately demonstrate what the %pre section might be used for, > as opposed to the %post section? > > anyone got better examples for %pre? > Here's what we use to partition a 9GB SCSI disk prior to installation so that we get the disk layout we want. The default way that kickstart (disk druid) did it would put the smallest partitions at the end of the disk. Not good when you don't want a /boot partition, and / is smaller than your 4GB /usr partition. We have a different one for use with 18GB systems. The values you put into the fdisk command will depend on your hard disk, the type and geometry. Carl G. Riches Software Engineer Department of Mathematics Box 354350 voice: 206-543-5082 or 206-616-3636 University of Washington fax: 206-543-0397 Seattle, WA 98195-4350 internet: riches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
# P R E - I N S T A L L A T I O N C O M M A N D S %pre # create the disk device mknod /dev/sda # partition the disk echo | fdisk /dev/sda <<EOF o w EOF echo | fdisk /dev/sda <<EOF n p 1 1 33 n e 2 34 1106 n l 34 66 n l 67 194 n l 195 704 n l 705 705 974 n l 975 1040 n l 1041 1106 t 6 82 w EOF
