From: "Ryan C. Spaulding" <rspaulding@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Steve,
There is a ticket on this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189123
I was in the same position and we ended up just doing a full dump of the
systems and starting over because of deadlines.
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for this; I confess to not having looked in bugzilla and have
just done so (more below).
I was able to do a pseudo-hands-off install by specifying everything
in a ks.cfg file *except* partitioning information, which of course
dropped anaconda out to prompt for partitioning information. All the
existing partitions were detected, both native and LVM and I dutifully
edited each in turn, adding the mountpoints and specifying whether or
not to reformat. Kickstart then proceeded and installed as I wanted.
This approach may help other correspondents wishing to upgrade no more
than a few machines.
Having installed as described above I looked with anticipation at
"/root/anaconda-ks.cfg" to see what I *should* have done. The
partitioning detail is here. It remains to be seen whether this works.
I will test it and report back. I note the absence of "--useexisting"
as per bug 189123.
# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
#part /boot --fstype ext3 --onpart sda1
#part pv.4 --noformat --onpart sdc1
#part pv.3 --noformat --onpart sdb1
#part pv.2 --noformat --onpart sda2
#volgroup vg00 --pesize=32768 pv.2 pv.3 pv.4
#logvol /vol0 --noformat --fstype ext3 --name=lvol0 --vgname=vg00
--size=161440
#logvol /vol1 --noformat --fstype ext3 --name=lvol1 --vgname=vg00
--size=161440
#logvol /tmp --fstype ext3 --name=ltmp --vgname=vg00 --size=50016
#logvol swap --fstype swap --name=lswap --vgname=vg00 --size=32768
#logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=lroot --vgname=vg00 --size=9024
Bug 150206 (opened on 3rd March 2005 and apparently untouched since!)
more closely matches my issue
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150206
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Regards,
Steve
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