Yes, we only have two definitions in our environment depending on whether you have one or two+ disks (or in our case, hardware RAID volumes). There are MANY different things you can do, from defining a 3, 4, 5, .... drive environment to dynamically generating the partition information based on the number of drives you have. The keys here are to use the %include for your partinfo, and to figure out some way to determine the number of drives you have and what devices they are. The nice thing (for us) about list-harddrives is that it works with all of the drives in our environment (cciss, sda, had) The key to list-harddrives is that the ODD numbers are the devices, and the EVEN numbers are the sizes of the devices (in case you want to figure out if you have enough space for what you want to do, or partition based on the size of the drive) Chip -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Eisch Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 11:03 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: Use anaconda procedure for partiton and format a new HD On 9/27/05 12:36 PM, "Shabazian, Chip" <Chip.Shabazian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > # Determine how many drives we have > set $(list-harddrives) > let numd=$#/2 > d1=$1 > d2=$3 > > # This is the scheme for two or more drives > > if [ $numd -ge 2 ] ; then > cat << EOF >> /tmp/partinfo > part pv.01 --size=1 --grow --fstype=ext3 --ondisk=$d1 > volgroup volgrp01 pv.01 > part pv.02 --size=1 --grow --fstype=ext3 --ondisk=$d2 > volgroup volgrp02 pv.02 That would only use the first two drives. If I detect multiple disks, I loop over them. This was on a 7.3 (pre list-harddrives and logical volume manager vintage) installer. Updating it with logval should be somewhat trivial. (Of course, $hds contains a list of the available drives, but determining that seems to be outside the scope of this thread.) echo "zerombr yes" >> /tmp/partinfo echo "clearpart --all --initlabel" >> /tmp/partinfo drive=0 bootdevs='' rootdevs='' for pdev in $hds do bootp=raid."$drive"1 rootp=raid."$drive"2 bootdevs="$bootdevs $bootp" rootdevs="$rootdevs $rootp" cat << EOF >> /tmp/partinfo part $bootp --size 50 --ondisk $pdev" part $rootp --size 1 --grow --ondisk $pdev" part swap --recommended --ondisk $pdev" EOF let drive=$drive+1 done echo "raid /boot --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext3 $bootdevs" >> /tmp/partinfo if [ $numhd -gt 2 ]; then echo "raid / --level=5 --device=md1 --fstype ext3 $rootdevs" >> /tmp/partinfo else echo "raid / --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype ext3 $rootdevs" >> /tmp/partinfo fi _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
