With different hardware, the device names are to change, and thus one will have to edit the ks.cfg for Linux Kickstarts everytime you are dealing with a different hardware.
Starting with RHEL 3.0, you could include a python script in your kickstart file and derive the list of your harddrives into a file. You could later include that file to define your drives.
%pre --interpreter /usr/bin/python
import os, sys
sys.path.append('/usr/lib/anaconda')
import isys
# get a sorted list of drives
drives = isys.hardDriveDict().keys()
drives.sort()
# write the include file to /tmp/kspart, drives[0] is the first drive,
# drives[1] is the second, etc. To get the filet to be used, put
# '%include /tmp/partitions' in your kickstart configuration.
print "Writing partition details"
f = open("/tmp/partitions", "w")
f.write("part /boot --size 400 --ondisk %s\n" % drives[0])
f.write("part / --size 6144 --ondisk %s\n" % drives[0])
f.write("part swap --size 2048 --ondisk %s\n" % drives[0])
f.write("part /var --size 3072 --ondisk %s\n" % drives[0])
f.write("part /home --size 2048 --ondisk %s\n" % drives[0])
f.write("part /tmp --size 4096 --ondisk %s\n" % drives[0])
f.write("part /data --size 6144 --ondisk %s\n" % drives[0])
f.close()
Of course, add this to your kickstart file:
%include /tmp/partitionsOriginal posting here.
AFAIK, this does not work with RHEL 2.1, as its anaconda is still retarded. Still working on RHEL 4.0 to confirm....
1 comment:
Hey.
This is a nice tutorial, but how to I check how many drives are actually in the system?
Or rather, how do I write an if statement, like {if %drives == 3) then
.......
elseif(%drives == 2)
then
......
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