Merry Christmas to you All: Someone on this list helped me over a year ago to set up Cobbler ... now version 2.0.11. I do have the following question: As it is set up now, Cobbler installs CentOS 5 or 6 on servers using LVM, Cluster Logical Volume Manager (see here: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Cluster_Logical_Volume_Manager/). That has created lots of problems for me when e.g. I try to replace one of two disks in a server (loosing data of one of the disks). It is really complicated. It would therefore be VERY helpful if one of you could be so very kind to post a full sample "partition_select" snippet for a server with two disks with a standard setup -- not LVM. Here is how then now looks presently in my Cobbler install: (1) /var/lib/cobbler/snippets/partition_select --------- %include /tmp/partinfo %pre # Determine how many drives we have set \$(list-harddrives) let numd=\$#/2 d1=\$1 d2=\$3 #set $vgname = "VolGroup00" #set $vgbackupname = "VolGroup01" if [ ! -z \$d1 ] then cat << EOF > /tmp/partinfo part /boot --fstype ext4 --size=140 --ondisk=\$d1 part pv.1 --size=1024 --grow --ondisk=\$d1 part pv.2 --size=1024 --grow --ondisk=\$d2 volgroup $vgname pv.1 volgroup $vgbackupname pv.2 logvol /tmp --fstype ext4 --name=tmp --vgname=$vgname --size=4096 logvol swap --fstype swap --name=swap --vgname=$vgname --size=1024 --grow --maxsize=4096 logvol /usr --fstype ext4 --name=usr --vgname=$vgname --size=18432 logvol / --fstype ext4 --name=root --vgname=$vgname --size=20480 --grow logvol /backup --fstype ext4 --name=backup --vgname=$vgbackupname --size=20480 --grow EOF else cat << EOF > /tmp/partinfo part /boot --fstype ext4 --size=140 --ondisk=\$d1 part pv.1 --size=1024 --grow --ondisk=\$d1 volgroup $vgname pv.1 logvol /tmp --fstype ext4 --name=tmp --vgname=$vgname --size=4096 logvol swap --fstype swap --name=swap --vgname=$vgname --size=1024 --grow --maxsize=4096 logvol /usr --fstype ext4 --name=usr --vgname=$vgname --size=18432 logvol / --fstype ext4 --name=root --vgname=$vgname --size=20480 --grow EOF fi --------- And the kickstarts file for CentOS 6 looks like this: (2) /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/centos6.ks --------- url --url=$tree lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us reboot skipx text network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp rootpw --iscrypted $default_password_crypted firewall --disabled authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 selinux --disabled timezone Europe/Berlin zerombr bootloader --location=mbr --append="rhgb quiet" clearpart --all --initlabel $SNIPPET('partition_select6') %pre $kickstart_start $SNIPPET('log_ks_pre') $SNIPPET('pre_install_network_config') $SNIPPET('pre_anamon') %packages --nobase coreutils yum rpm e2fsprogs lvm2 sysstat ntp openssh-server openssh-clients wget authconfig sudo man man-pages nano rdate %post $SNIPPET('post_install_network_config') $SNIPPET('post_install_kernel_options') $SNIPPET('post_anamon') $SNIPPET('log_ks_post') $SNIPPET('cobbler_register') $kickstart_done ---------- THANK YOU ! Frank _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler