Here, just fix your HD determining problem. This is what I do in my %pre: # Determine how many drives we have set $(list-harddrives) let numd=$#/2 d1=$1 d2=$3 # This is the LD&E scheme for two or more drives if [ $numd -ge 2 ] ; then cat << EOF >> /tmp/partinfo 2 + Drive Partitioning info EOF else cat << EOF >> /tmp/partinfo 1 Drive Partitioning info EOF Then in the top command section, use: %include /tmp/partinfo As for debugging in %pre, I put a sleep 999999999 in the pre, then simply work at the console. There are other ways as well, but this works for me. When you want to move past the sleep, just kill the process. Doing this, you can step through your pre or post with sleeps at any point you want. -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tracy R Reed Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 11:55 AM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: %pre and include files I have a pretty nice kickstart setup going but now I need two different LVM/RAID schemes: One for our 2 drive systems which we want mirrored and one for our 4 drive systems which we want configured with a RAID 5 and a spare. So I split out the common kickstart configs into a file called ks-standardoptions.cfg so I have one central place to edit the things in common and have only the machine specific LVM/RAID config and an include in each main kickstart config. Eventually I will try to put some smarts in the %pre to detect how many HD's the machine has and load the right one. For now I choose at boot time. The problem is: The machine only tftp's the main kickstart file. How do I get the other file to be included? Googling reveals that most people seem to put a wget in a %pre and then include the file they wget. I have tried that but it seems either it is not successfully retrieving the config file to be included or it is not being included at all. I do not see any way to debug what happens during %pre as I do not see any output, not even errors. Is there some option I am missing? Some way to single step it? I guess I could try making the shell /bin/sh -x and see if it echos the commands to the screen as they execute. Does it matter where the %pre and %post sections are located in the kickstart config? Most people seem to put them at the end. But my %include is at the beginning. I read somewhere that two passes are made processing includes so that if the file to be included is not present the first time around it eventually executes the %pre and it tries again. Is that correct? An example of my main config can be found here: http://paste.plone.org/4669 Anyone see a problem with this? Thanks! -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
