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Unattended Kickstart install supporting both IDE (hda) / SCSI (sda) ?

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https://www.centos.org – Perhaps some kickstart guru has a better answer, but I believe you will either need to adjust the kickstart file, or create the VMware VM with IDE drives. [by pschaff] (Distributions)

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