You simply tell kickstart to ignore the drive in the kickstart command section. Assuming your usb drive is sda: ignoredrisk drives=sda -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alasdair Young Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:44 AM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Any idea how to avoid formatting my USB drive? Hi. I am trying to set up an automatic install of FC6 using kickstart. I have a bootable USB stick with a syslinux.cfg file that points to a kickstart file located on a central server (via http). Everything works well and is completely automated, however I cannot seem to work out how to stop the install from wanting to format my USB stick. I have tried removing "--all" from the clearpart command below, or even just changing it to "--linux" without any luck.I've searched google, but I can't find any discussion of the issue. Is there any way to specify a drive that should NOT be formatted, or any other way to work around this problem? Kind regards, - alasdair I have the following kickstart file: install url --url http://pxe/fedora/6/i386/core/os skipx text lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip=10.22.22.1 --netmask=255.255.255.0 network --device eth1 --bootproto dhcp rootpw --iscrypted (**whatever**) firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 selinux --disabled timezone --utc GMT bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=hda clearpart --all --drives=hda part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=hda part pv.7 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=hda volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.7 logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1000 --grow --maxsize=1984 %packages @base %post // various things here that are irrelevant. _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
