ignoring disks in kickstart

[Stephen Anderson]

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_42_8927.shtm

The kickstart directive ignoredisk will instruct Anaconda to skip any
disk named.

In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5 and later, the following
workaround has been developed to more effectively address this issue:

The kickstart directive ignoredisk will instruct Anaconda to skip any
disk named. In its simplest form, the individual SAN drives (LUNs) can
be passed to the command. For example, if the SAN drives were named
/dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, the following line could be dropped into the
main section of the kickstart file:

ignoredisk --drives=sdb,sdc

On 9/19/06, Greg Dickie <greg at max-t.com> wrote:
>
> Actually thats what we do for drives that are external. However, the
> reason that this came up again is because I have a machine with a 2TB
> array on 8 SAS drives in my PE2900 so no obvious way to unplug that.....
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
> On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 11:10 -0400, Sean Dilda wrote:
> > Greg Dickie wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >   I had posted this to anaconda-dev but got no response so I'll try
> > > here.... Does anyone know how to tell anaconda to ignore any disks that
> > > its not installing the system on? In my case I have many external drives
> > > which are all LVM on bare disks that I don't want anaconda to look at
> > > but it insists on stopping on all of these to ask if I want to create a
> > > partition table.
> > >
> >
> > Whenever I have disks that I don't want anaconda to touch, I remove them
> > just to be safe.  Which should be even easier in your case since they're
> > external.
> >
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