Oops, forgot to mention that list-hardrives also returns the SIZE of the drive. $2 is the size of the first drive, $4 the size of the second, and so on. -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shabazian, Chip Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:28 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: Sane default kickstarts that understand hard disk differences I've got a great way that I've been doing this for years. It works for all types of drives, scsi, ide, even the cciss scsi controllers in HP DL Servers. In %pre, I figure out what drives exist in the system, and write out a partion scheme based on one or two drives: %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=$d2 volgroup volgrp02 pv.02 #HOWEVER_YOU_WANT_TO_PARTITION EOF else cat << EOF >> /tmp/partinfo part pv.01 --size=1 --grow --fstype=ext3 --ondisk=$d1 volgroup volgrp01 pv.01 #HOWEVER_YOU_WANT_TO_PARTITION EOF fi I then %include the partitioning back up in the command section: %include /tmp/partinfo -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael DeHaan Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:11 AM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Sane default kickstarts that understand hard disk differences Fellow Kickstarters, Cobbler (http://cobbler.et.redhat.com) ships some default kickstart files that it provides for users for setting up fully automated installs (users who do not want to write their own kickstarts). I am trying to improve those default kickstarts. One of the things I want to do is ship a good default kickstart that, on the given system, does a reinstall of the OS using a sane partitioning layout, regardless of whether the boot drive is /dev/hda or /dev/sda, and regardless of size. I don't want to assume IDE drives of a certain size, for instance. That wouldn't be good. A much larger SCSI drive should be usable too, and should result in a larger "/" partition. Obviously this won't fit everyone's needs, but it is useful for basic/intermediate users. Does anyone have any kickstarts that accomplish this? I realize this is all documented to some extent, though if anyone can share some real life working fully automatic kickstarts that ignore drive size/type would be really great. Thanks, Michael DeHaan _______________________________________________ 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
