autoinstall storage section

Jerry Geis jerry.geis at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 23:00:24 UTC 2021


On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 5:14 PM Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 2:08 AM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I am having trouble with the storage section for autoinstall.
> >
> > I simple want to use the disk (sda, vda, nvme) whichever it finds.
> > format a /boot/efi perhaps 512M on partition 1
> > format ext4 a 20G / on partition 2
> > format ext4 rest to /home on partition 3
> >
> > I keep getting FAILED storage or something... How do I accomplish
> > the above simple configuration?
>
> I've never used kickseed, and I haven't used kickstart in a long
> > time (or preseed; I prefer golden master tarballs).
>
> What syntax are you using?
>
> Something like this should do it:
>
> zerombr yes
> clearpart --all
> part /boot/efi --fstype=vfat --size=512
> part /         --fstype=ext4 --size=20480
> part /home     --fstype=ext4 --size=20480 --grow
>
> You can use "DEBCONF_DEBUG=x" (maximum "x" is 5) on the kernel cmdline
> and switch to another console when the installation fails to read the
> error message(s).
>
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Hi Tom - Thanks those commands are for kickstart - I do know those - I was
talking about autoinstall.
I dont know how to do that in autoinstall. there seems to be no
autoinstall-editor at this time.

Jerry
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