I wrote:
Well, not so fast. suomi's example did not involve LVM but LVM
is
the default for Fedora. Trying to follow the example and adjusting
for LVM doesn't work for me. With these kickstart commands,
bootloader --driveorder=sda --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda
clearpart --none --initlabel
part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=500 --onpart=sda
part pv.01 --noformat --onpart=sda
volgroup vg_test1 pv.01 --noformat
logvol /home --noformat --name=lv_home --vgname=vg_test1
logvol / --useexisting --name=lv_root --vgname=vg_test1
logvol swap --useexisting --name=lv_swap --vgname=vg_test1
installation fails with the message, "Members may not be specified
for preexisting volgroup".
Found my error. The following commands work:
bootloader --driveorder=sda --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda
clearpart --none --initlabel
part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=500 --onpart=sda1
part pv.01 --noformat --onpart=sda2
volgroup vg_test1 --noformat
logvol /home --noformat --name=lv_home --vgname=vg_test1
logvol / --useexisting --name=lv_root --vgname=vg_test1
logvol swap --useexisting --name=lv_swap --vgname=vg_test1
Basically, onpart needed the partition number, not just the disk name. I
also omitted pv.01 from volgroup but not sure if that was necessary.
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Dave Close