I am having trouble doing a 6.2 kickstart install on a machine with a
previously used /dev/sda. It always fails on the first 'part' statement. I
finally did a manual install and discovered in the anaconda-ks.cfg that the
drive is not sda but has a really funny name
ddf1_<very long hexadecimal sequence>
What is this name? How do I get rid of it and have it simply as sda?
The kickstart has a 'clearpart' statement that clears all partitions on all
drives (there are 2 drives on the sytem). When the kickstart failed, I
manually removed the partitions by booting the system with sysrescuecd and
used fdisk to remove the partitions. I verified that the partition table is
empty both under SL6.2's DVD and sysrescuecd.
Then I tried the kickstart again and it failed at the first 'part' statement.
The problem is the drive name. sysrescuecd thinks it's /dev/sda, but not the
SL6.2 install or everything DVD.
Can I not reuse drives? Are they magically labelled somewhere?
Thanks!