On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 02/19/2013 10:14 AM, Graham Allan wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 07:33:37PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>> On 02/18/2013 02:01 PM, Ken Teh wrote:
>>>>
>>>> During a kickstart install, how are drives mapped? I notice that sata0
>>>> is not always sda. This is especially true when there are very large
>>>> drives in the mix.
>>>
>>> The sd* letters are simply handed out in order of enumeration and,
>>> as you noted, is not deterministic. If you need that, use the
>>> /dev/disk/by-{id,label,path,uuid} labels.
>>
>> For this reason we use a script during the kickstart %pre section which
>> attempts to examine the available drives and determine which is the
>> appropriate one to install on (also waits for confirmation if an
>> unexpected partition table is found).
>
> Any chance you can share that script? It sounds interesting!

You can use "list-hardrives" in "%pre" and parse its output.

If you want to see what its output looks like, you can install
anaconda - although the actual anaconda executable, IIRC, is
"list-hardrives-<something>".