Thanks Kris for your reply. This would work on a case by case basis. However, what I am looking for is a generic setting so that one kickstart file can be indiscriminately used against all of my machines. And this is what I am not sure how to do. Thank you, Phil On Sunday 11 November 2007, Kristoffer Knigga wrote: > You can specify what drive partitions are made on using the "--ondisk > <device name>" option. See below: > > part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 --asprimary --ondisk cciss/c0d0 > part swap --size 24000 --asprimary --ondisk cciss/c0d0 > part / --fstype ext3 --size 20000 --asprimary --ondisk cciss/c0d0 > > Note that I'm using HP RAID cards, so I get strange device names. It > would probably be something like "--ondisk sda" in most cases. > > Kris > > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Phil Savoie > Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 8:14 PM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: 1st disk only automated install > > Hi All, > > I have an environment where I have a number of machines that are > pata/sata/ide. That is to say, each of these machines have 2 drives > installed. These drives could be a pair pata or sata or ide drives in > each > box. > > My question is; is there a way, using kickstart to confine the install > to only > the normal boot drive and not have the install put any filesystems on > the > other drive? > > I have found that kickstart is using both drives on the install where I > only > really want one disk to have the whole installed OS on it leaving the > other > untouched. I guess the kicker would be that I also need to have this > same > behaviour on the rest of my boxes which could be pata/sata/ide. > > Any help on this would be appreciated, please. > > Thank you, > > Phil > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
