As a hint, If you run through the interactive setup, I usually steal the kickstart file
out of the root home directory and compare it to the one you can view via the web to see
if I got all the options I needed at least for the first few passes.
It's also a great method to validate that the templates and snippets actually work
properly without having to waste time booting a test system.
James
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On 2012-09-11, at 4:23 PM, Bai Shen <baishen.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Okay, I was wrong. It lists all four drives. I didn't realize
it was a scrollable list.
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Bai Shen <baishen.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Okay, so I changed the snippet to be after the %pre instead of before. Now it's
giving me an interactive prompt asking if I want to use the entire drive or just the free
space. It also only lists sdb and sdc.
However, when I did autopart, all four drives showed up.
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Corey Kovacs <corey.kovacs(a)gmail.com> wrote:
install anaconda on a running machine....
/usr/share/anaconda/list-harddrives-stub
The "set" in the partitioning snippet is not a cheetah macro command, it's
a shell command. The partitioning snippet gets executed as a %pre section in the
kickstart.
-C
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Bai Shen <baishen.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I tried doing that and it says that set is not a recognized command. I put a # in front
like I did for the other set and now it can't find the kickstart file. Not sure if
it's related or not.
Also, how do you run list-harddrives-stub manually? It doesn't show up as a command
on my system.
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Corey Kovacs <corey.kovacs(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If you install anaconda and run list-harddrives-stub manually, you'll see what
it's doing.
Basically, it returns something like this.
sda 1907729.08594
sdb 1907729.08594
sdc 1907729.08594
the set $(list-harddrives) bit of code, assigns these values to the $1 $2 $3 ...
variables. So when you need to refer to the drives in the partitioning snippet code, you
can just refer to the first drive and $d1, then second as $d2 etc.
Remember to escape the "$" in the snippet tho..
for example the snippet code would look like this....
set \$(list-harddrives)
let numd=\$#/2 # Number of harddrives
d1=\$1 # Device for first drive
d2=\$3 # Device for first drive
d3=\$5 # Device for first drive
etc...
Nice thing about this is it lets you make some decisions based on the existence of the
"d" variables. So if "$d3" exists on a certain machine, add it to the
config, otherwise, don't include it's partitioning info etc. Quite handy
Hope this helps
-C
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Bai Shen <baishen.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Can you explain that in more detail? I'm not quite sure I follow what it's
supposed to do. Do I continue with $3 for the second drive and $4 for the second drives
size?
Thanks.
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Pablo Iranzo Gómez <Pablo.Iranzo(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
Why don't you use:
set $(list-harddrives)
let numd=$#/2 # Number of harddrives
d1=$1 # Device for first drive
S1=$2 # size for first drive
and then "--ondisk=$d1" ??
Regards
Pablo
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Enviados: Lunes, 10 de Septiembre 2012 18:02:11
Asunto: Re: [cobbler] Different partitioning requirements for identical
blades
Are you sure there /is/ a /dev/sda? If it’s an HP, try "cciss/c0d0".
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Subject: Re: [cobbler] Different partitioning requirements for identical blades
How do you configure multiple disks when not using raid? I'm trying to specify
--ondisk=sda and cobbler keeps giving me an error saying bad keyword '/dev/sda'
Any suggestions?
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:15 PM, James Clendenan <james.clendenan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Personally I would just use a tag and in the partitioning section test if that tag is set
or not. It gets a bit more interesting when you start merging roles so keeping each of the
tags as atomic as possible is useful. But I have had to do this when doing bake offs with
different raid configurations in the past and it works well.
James
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On 2012-09-06, at 7:11 PM, Bai Shen <baishen.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a blade server that I'm building using cobbler to be a hadoop cluster.
Since the data nodes like seeing the individual drives, I'm going to partition those
differently than the other nodes.
>
> Is there a recommended method to handling the parititions? Everything else about
the kickstart will be the same.
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> Thanks.
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