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Hi, I am struggling with kickstart. What I want to achieve is a reinstall, but some data partitions should survive the install, i.e. they should not be formatted. With a single disk this works, here is the relevant part from the kickstart file (I shortened the name of the volume group) ... zerombr clearpart --none --initlabel part /boot --fstype="xfs" --label=boot --onpart=vda1 part

I'm ill, i'm german ... the script is looks ok, copy from a slim installation of anaconda. Insert only the "pre part" and part /boot --onpart=/dev/sda1 part / --onpart=/dev/sda2 part swap --onpart=/dev/sda3 As i wrote: Jump over to another console and the partitions are there. Sincerely Andy Am Mittwoch, den 15.02.2017, 11:16 -0800 schrieb John R

I remember a thread many months ago where someone asked about a disaster recovery template or guide and several people on this list linked some really good content. I can't seem to find that thread now and neglected to make note of the links but I do recall that some of the guides came from a site that had many other "industry best practices" type guides. Any insight here or do you

we have ORACLE 10.2.0.4 with CENTOS 4.4 on DELL server.? Recently we are test "UTL_SMTP" on ORACLE PL?SQL program and tried to send MAIL to customers. ? The problem is this send MAIL program always one time work and second time not work (loop).? I don't think problem come from ORACLE bug or any ORACLE relate problem.? If I copy database and put on anyother server, it work correctly.

I want to replace an existing 32bit with a 64bit installation (Centos 5). There's an existing LVM with lots of partitions. Most are used for Xen guests. The system itself uses only one of them plus a separate /boot partition that is not on LVM. What's the best course of action here? Should I do the reinstall with kickstart or better manually and reuse the existing filesystem? As I

Not specific to CentOS but I know you guys would be really helpful anyhow. Basically, I have a file which has been editted in the past very similarly to the hosts file only now I want to use it as a hosts file and need to run some fancy sed to massage the data into shape. Currently, the data in the file is in the form of <ip address> <tab> <short hostname> <space>

I'm looking to acquire a few new core switches for our network which would be a major upgrade from the cheap unmanaged things we currently have. Basically, just users, servers, and other simple network devices will be plugged into them but I'd like to start doing some testing with iSCSI for various non-production reasons. I have no allegiance to a particular vendor although I do have a

I'd like to automate the upgrade from CentOS 4.6 to 5.1 as much as possible. Since upgrades per se are not really recommended, I'm planning to do a kickstart installation. However, I want to leave one of the existing partitions (/scratch) untouched during the installation. Here is my current layout (LogVol00 is swap so not shown in the df output below): # df -hl

I am trying to help a friend with a 2850 and snmp monitoring of a controller and its arrays. I don't have any dells, do they have a rpm to make easy work of this for the Percs? They have a monitoring solution already. Any hints I could pass on would be appreciated! Thanks, jlc

Hi, all. I use this kickstart file to install CentOS 5.2 (both i386 and x86_64), but i can't config NICs and hostname during installation, what's wrong with it? Thanks very much. ----<- kickstart file ----<---- # System authorization information #auth --useshadow --enablemd5 # System keyboard #keyboard us # System language #lang en_US # Installation logging level #logging

Hi all, I hope someone can help me with this one. I'm trying to graph all traffic on the localhost's network card with Cacti. >From what I understand I should use SNMP to query the traffic, but I can't seem to get SNMP info for the network interface. I have installed all the necessary snmp tools, "yum install snmpd net-snmp net-snmp-utils net-snmp-devel net-snmpt-libs "

Over the last couple of weeks, additional software was installed using the package manager. I would like to get a custom kickstart file created for our system. For this, I would like to get complete list of software installed so they may be add to the kickstart file package selection. Can anyone tell me if this can be done? If it can, please give me instructions? Finally, where on

I have 2 questions dealing with 2 different kickstart files. 1) my kickstart sections for RAID disk setup and kickstart reports it cannot find sda. Why is that. sda is there and works. clearpart --all --initlabel part raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --onpart=sda1 --size=20000 part swap --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap"

Hello Guys, after hours of uncessfull create example before i forward special parition tests. part ignoe --onpart But Installation hang out for parition the harddisk. jump to another console partitions are ok ? Which line/lines is/are missing? Andy #version=DEVEL # System authorization information auth --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 # Use CDROM installation media cdrom # Use graphical

I was just wondering how (or indeed if) people use the %include directive in Kickstart configuration files when building systems via NFS. I've been trying to modularise our Kickstart files a little to make things more readable, having generic defaults and role specific stuff split out into separate configs. I've tried this configuration... [root at archive kickstart]# cat

Hi all, I know this is not ldap list, but I'm setting SAMBA LDAP BDC; I think many of you have experience with this. I setup a replica, I haven't done the following I followed 1. http://howto.aphroland.de/HOWTO/LDAP/ReplicationOverSSLConfigureOpenLDAP 2. http://howto.aphroland.de/HOWTO/LDAP/ReplicationOverSSLSlaveServer 3.

Hey all, I have sort of an odd request for you today in regards to Kickstart configuration. I have recently created a kickstart configuration file to better standardize the configuration aspect of my server installations. I am having one issue and that is distributing a script (yum-check) via the kickstart file (in %post section). Parts of the script get written to the correct file

Hey, I solved my "The installation source given by device ['sdb2'] could not be found". Apparently ignoredisk is so strong it not only ignores the disks to be partitioned but also the disks holding the installation source... Now I ran into: ? In interactive step cleardiskssel, can't continue In anaconda.log I saw: ? step installtype does not exist ? step confirminstall

I am using a kickstart file for CentOS 7 raid / --device=md0 --fstype="xfs" --level=1 --useexisting raid /home --noformat --device=md1 --level=1 --useexisting It is erroring out on the --useexisting. The exact text is: RAID volume "0" specified with "--useexisting" does not exist. What did I do wrong? Jerry

I have a kickstart file with the following partitioning directives: part /boot --fstype ext3 --onpart=sda1 part pv.100000 --onpart=sda2 --noformat volgroup vol0 pv.100000 --noformat logvol / --vgname=vol0 --name=lvol1 --useexisting --fstype=ext4 logvol /tmp --vgname=vol0 --name=lvol2 --useexisting --fstype=ext4 logvol swap --vgname=vol0 --name=lvol3 --useexisting logvol /data --vgname=vol0