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 ________________________________ From: Robinson, Andrew W. [mailto:Andrew.W.Robinson@xxxxxxx] 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
