[NCLUG] Question: Fedora 12 Kickstart Wierdness

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:03:23 -0800 (PST)
Marcio Luis Teixeira <marciot at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Has anyone encountered problems getting Anaconda to properly read and
> apply the partitions specified in a kickstart file under Fedora 12?
> I've been trying variations for days, and it either crashes the
> installer with an exception, or the few configs I have gotten to
> work, it simply does the wrong thing. For example, when I have the
> following lines in my kickstart:

...snip...

> part /boot      --fstype=ext3 --size=200
> part pv.01      --grow --size=1
> clearpart --all --drives=sda

I think order may well matter here... you are setting up /boot and pv.01, 
and then clearing the drive?

> volgroup VolGroup --pesize=4096 pv.01
> logvol /        --fstype=ext3 --name=lv_root    --vgname=VolGroup --size=40960
> logvol /scratch --fstype=ext3 --name=lv_scratch --vgname=VolGroup --size=19216
> logvol swap                   --name=lv_swap    --vgname=VolGroup --size=1056

You might try the kickstart list as well: 

http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list

and the kickstart quick ref guide: 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart

You might also try doing an install exactly the way you want it, and
then looking at the /root/*.ks file that it creates. 

kevin
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