[CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

2008-03-28 Thread Jerry Geis
part of my kickstart file is now: clearpart --all --initlabel part --ondisk=sda raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --onpart=sda1 --size=2 part --ondisk=sda swap--asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap" --onpart=sda2 --size=4000 part --ondisk=sda raid.02

[CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

2008-03-28 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: part of my kickstart file is now: clearpart --all --initlabel part --ondisk=sda raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --onpart=sda1 --size=2 part --ondisk=sda swap--asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap" --onpart=sda2 --size=4000 part --

[CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

2008-03-28 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > part of my kickstart file is now: > > clearpart --all --initlabel > part --ondisk=sda raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 > --fstype="raid" --onpart=sda1 --size=2 > part --ondisk=sda swap--asprimary --bytes-per

RE: [CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

2008-03-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jerry Geis wrote: > > part of my kickstart file is now: > > clearpart --all --initlabel > part --ondisk=sda raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" > --onpart=sda1 --size=2 > part --ondisk=sda swap--asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap" > --onpart=sda2 --si

Re: [CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

2008-03-28 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 at 4:23pm, Jerry Geis wrote clearpart --all --initlabel part --ondisk=sda raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --onpart=sda1 --size=2 part --ondisk=sda swap--asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap" --onpart=sda2 --size=4000 part --ondi

RE: [CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

2008-03-28 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 at 4:32pm, Ross S. W. Walker wrote I think you might be missing a little something in there, like /boot? /boot is not required to be its own partition. In the days of yore, when BIOSes couldn't boot from partitions the crossed the 1024 cylinder barrier, it made sense to

Re: [CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

2008-03-28 Thread Milton Calnek
Jerry Geis wrote: I changed the config to use --ondisk above and at install I get a message saying: "Unable to locate partition sda1 to use for ." Press OK to reboot your system. I'm guessing it is because the partition tables don't exist. It seems that --onpart doesn't actually create part

RE: [CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

2008-03-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 at 4:32pm, Ross S. W. Walker wrote > > > I think you might be missing a little something in there, like /boot? > > /boot is not required to be its own partition. In the days of yore, when > BIOSes couldn't boot from partitions the crossed the 102

Re: [CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

2008-03-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 at 4:32pm, Ross S. W. Walker wrote I think you might be missing a little something in there, like /boot? /boot is not required to be its own partition. In the days of yore, when BIOSes couldn't boot from partitions the crossed the 1024 cylinder

Re: [CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

2008-03-28 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: >Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >>On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 at 4:32pm, Ross S. W. Walker wrote >> >>>I think you might be missing a little something in there, like /boot? >> >>/boot is not required to be its own partition. In the days of yore, >>when BIOSes couldn'

Re: [CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

2008-03-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 15:50 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: > >Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > >>On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 at 4:32pm, Ross S. W. Walker wrote > >> > I used to use the separate /boot partition, but quit when the 1024 sector > problem was solved, mostly