I have successfully done this with RHEL 2.1, 3 and 4. The %include is actually the second to last item in my config section, just before reboot: %include /tmp/partinfo reboot And this is in my pre: # Determine how many drives we have set $(list-harddrives) let numd=$#/2 d1=$1 d2=$3 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=$d2 volgroup volgrp02 pv.02 part / --fstype ext3 --size=10240 --ondisk=$d1 logvol /var --vgname=volgrp01 --size=8192 --name=var part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=256 --ondisk=$d1 logvol /home --vgname=volgrp02 --size=4096 --name=home logvol /tmp --vgname=volgrp01 --size=2048 --name=tmp part swap --recommended --ondisk=$d1 EOF else cat << EOF >> /tmp/partinfo part pv.01 --size=1 --grow --fstype=ext3 --ondisk=$d1 volgroup volgrp01 pv.01 part / --fstype ext3 --size=10240 --ondisk=$d1 logvol /var --vgname=volgrp01 --size=8192 --name=var part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=256 --ondisk=$d1 logvol /home --vgname=volgrp01 --size=4096 --name=home logvol /tmp --vgname=volgrp01 --size=2048 --name=tmp part swap --recommended --ondisk=$d1 EOF -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Puellmann Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 7:09 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: part-include I've used %include for partitioning without any problems with RHEL ES 4 by putting the partition %include directive between the "mouse" and "bootloader" options. (before the %pre) and then doing this in the %pre: cat > /tmp/include << EOF zerombr yes clearpart --all partition /boot --fstype=ext3 --size=200 partition swap --size=2000 partition pv.01 --size=1000 --grow volgroup myvg pv.01 logvol / --vgname=myvg --name=rootvol --size=1000 --grow logvol /tmp --vgname=myvg --name=tmp --size=1024 EOF Philip Rowlands wrote: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Stephen Mah wrote: > >> I have a %pre script that writes to /tmp/part-include depending on >> the hard drive layout. >> The file, part-include is successfully written, but kickstart seems >> to ignore it. >> >> I've tried putting, before the %pre section and in the %pre section. >> %include /tmp/part-include > > > Which version of RHEL/Fedora? I know I had problems with %include in > older releases. > > > Cheers, > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
