Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 System Administration Manual page 34

Chapter 1. Kickstart Installations
--onpart= or --usepart=
Put the partition on the already existing device. For example:
partition /home --onpart=hda1
puts /home on /dev/hda1, which must already exist.
--ondisk= or --ondrive=
Forces the partition to be created on a particular disk. For example, --ondisk=sdb puts the
partition on the second SCSI disk on the system.
--asprimary
Forces automatic allocation of the partition as a primary partition, or the partitioning fails.
--type= (replaced by fstype)
This option is no longer available. Use fstype.
--fstype=
Sets the file system type for the partition. Valid values are ext2, ext3, swap, and vfat.
--start=
Specifies the starting cylinder for the partition. It requires that a drive be specified with --
ondisk= or ondrive=. It also requires that the ending cylinder be specified with --end= or
the partition size be specified with --size=.
--end=
Specifies the ending cylinder for the partition. It requires that the starting cylinder be specified
with --start=.
Note
If partitioning fails for any reason, diagnostic messages appear on virtual console 3.
poweroff (optional)
Shut down and power off the system after the installation has successfully completed. Normally
during a manual installation, anaconda displays a message and waits for the user to press a key
before rebooting. During a kickstart installation, if no completion method is specified, the reboot
option is used as default.
The poweroff option is roughly equivalent to the shutdown -p command.
Note
The poweroff option is highly dependent on the system hardware in use.
Specifically, certain hardware components such as the BIOS, APM (advanced power
management), and ACPI (advanced configuration and power interface) must be able
to interact with the system kernel. Contact your manufacturer for more information on
you system's APM/ACPI abilities.
For other completion methods, refer to the halt, reboot, and shutdown kickstart options.
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