Your problem is probably in your partitioning schemes. Try building with each scheme via kickstart. If they work then the problem is probably in your logic, where I already see one issue. set two drives to -eq, not -ge as 3 is always greater than 2. -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rudi Ahlers Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 2:16 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: some help needed with python script to detect number of drives in kickstart file Michael DeHaan wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I would like to put together a kickstart script which will allow me >> to install CentOS on many different platforms, regardless of the >> number & types of drive installed. If the system has 3 drives, I'd >> like to setup RAID 1 + 1 hot spare, for example. If it has 4 HDD's, >> then I'd like to setup RAID10, and for 10 HDD's, RAID 50. >> >> So, after trying many different options, I still can't get it to >> work, but recently found the following website, >> http://evuraan.blogspot.com/2005/02/auto-finding-your-hard-drives-for >> .html which basically outlines a way to determine how many drives are >> in the machine, but it's very basic. >> > This script is a bit overkill. From cobbler's snippets directory, I > have this for default drive selection code. You will have do a bit > more get RAID auto-configured, but that is left as an exercise for the > reader. > > %include /tmp/partinfo > > %pre > # Determine how many drives we have > set \$(list-harddrives) > let numd=\$#/2 > d1=\$1 > d2=\$3 > > cat << EOF > /tmp/partinfo > part / --fstype ext3 --size=1024 --grow --ondisk=\$d1 --asprimary part > swap --size=1024 --ondisk=\$d1 --asprimary EOF > > I've tried that example already, as well, but the partitions never get created, with the more advanced code below: set $(list-harddrives) let numd=$#/2 # This will provide the total # of drives d1=$1 # This is the device of disk 1 d2=$3 # This is the device of disk 2, etc. d3=$5 d4=$7 d5=$9 S1=$2 # This is the size of disk 1 S2=$4 # This is the size of disk 2, etc. S3=$6 S4=$8 S5=$10 # This would be a partition scheme for three or more drives if [ $numd -ge 3 ] ; then cat << EOF >> /tmp/partinfo part raid.11 --size 200 --asprimary --ondrive=$d1 part raid.12 --size 2048 --asprimary --ondrive=$d1 part raid.13 --size 1 --grow --ondrive=$d1 part raid.21 --size 200 --asprimary --ondrive=$d2 part raid.22 --size 2048 --asprimary --ondrive=$d2 part raid.23 --size 1 --grow --ondrive=$d2 part raid.31 --size 200 --asprimary --ondrive=$d3 part raid.32 --size 2048 --asprimary --ondrive=$d3 part raid.33 --size 1 --grow --ondrive=$d3 raid /boot --fstype ext3 --device md0 --level=RAID1 raid.11 raid.21 raid.31 --spare=1 raid swap --fstype swap --device md1 --level=RAID1 raid.12 raid.22 raid.32 --spare=1 raid pv.01 --fstype ext3 --device md2 --level=RAID1 raid.13 raid.23 raid.33 --spare=1 logvol / --vgname=sysvg --size=3072 --name=root logvol /usr --vgname=sysvg --size=8192 --name=usr logvol /tmp --vgname=sysvg --size=1024 --name=tmp logvol /var --vgname=sysvg --size=8192 --name=var logvol /home --vgname=sysvg --size=20480 --name=home logvol /bck --vgname=pv.02 --size=1 --grow --name=bck EOF elif [ $numd - ge 2 ]; then cat << EOF >> /tmp/partinfo part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=150 --ondisk=$d1 part swap --size=4092 --ondisk=$d1,$d2 part pv.01 --fstype ext3 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=$d1 part pv.02 --fstype ext3 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=$d2 logvol / --vgname=sysvg --size=3072 --name=root logvol /usr --vgname=sysvg --size=8192 --name=usr logvol /tmp --vgname=sysvg --size=1024 --name=tmp logvol /var --vgname=sysvg --size=8192 --name=var logvol /home --vgname=sysvg --size=20480 --name=home EOF else cat << EOF >> /tmp/partinfo part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=150 --ondisk=$d1 part swap --size=4092 --ondisk=$d1 part pv.01 --fstype ext3 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=$d1 logvol / --vgname=sysvg --size=3072 --name=root logvol /usr --vgname=sysvg --size=8192 --name=usr logvol /tmp --vgname=sysvg --size=1024 --name=tmp logvol /var --vgname=sysvg --size=8192 --name=var logvol /home --vgname=sysvg --size=20480 --name=home EOF fi -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stuff _______________________________________________ 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
