I don't know if it's exactly what you're looking for, but another RHEL 4 install directive is "latefcload" which tells anaconda to scan any Fibre devices last, which insures that any local scsi disks are the first in the list (ie. /dev/sda is a local scsi device, not a San lun, if both are present.) It's been back-ported to RHEL 3 and is included in U6. If you need to make San storage completely invisible during the install, one option is to unroll the install media and in the initrd.img file in /modules/pcitable file, change any occurrences of "qla2xxx" to "ignore" (ie. qla2100, qla2200, qla2300...) or whatever the device is for your HBA's. It's kind of a pain, but should prevent them from being seen at all during the initial boot/install, but will load the appropriate drivers for the running OS during the install. Gordon -----Original Message----- From: Brian Long [mailto:briandlong@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 8:49 AM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RHEL 3 and "nostorage"? On my RHEL 4 kickstarts, I specify nostorage on the command line and "device scsi cciss" in ks.cfg. This ensures no SAN-connected devices will be seen by Anaconda and get accidentally overwritten. Has anyone duplicated this behavior on RHEL 3? I looked at Anaconda source for U5 and U6 and nostorage is not present. I believe the only similar option would be "noprobe" and then specify device eth and scsi in ks.cfg. I'm not very familiar with noprobe; will the kickstart go interactive for other options as well? We already specify the monitor in ks.cfg, so that should be fine. Thanks for any pointers on how to emulate nostorage in RHEL 3. /Brian/
