In this case, I'm not trying to protect any data, I'm just trying to prevent some weirdness that happens on my Proliant servers when I install.
Thanks, Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sandor W. Sklar Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 4:14 PM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Ignore SAN during install? On Dec 16, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on kickstarting RHEL4 servers with SAN- > attached disks. The disks hang off of Qlogic HBAs, for which there > is a generic qla2xxx driver being loaded. I would like to prevent > the SAN disks from being "seen" during the install - anyone know of > a way to do that? > The *only* sure way I know of doing this is by blocking off the ports on the switches while doing the kickstart. I've (or my co-workers) have hosed too many SAN-disk-resident filesystems in the past trying to get around this problem (which we only have on Linux; its never been an issue on AIX or Solaris, but that's probably just because of the deterministic method of device enumeration on those operating systems.) -s- -- Sandor W. Sklar Unix Systems Administrator Digital Libraries Systems & Services Stanford University Libraries _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
