cactus
However I have not been able to deduce how I can exclude one drive from the installation process.
Quoting from the bug report at
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5316#c13"The installer without anything being passed should behave identically for disks
< 10 with the exception that it won't include any device that is housed on a
drive that needs the usb-storage or spb2 module.
If you want to include drives that are on USB or firewire you must use the
drives= option and specify all drives (not just the usb/firewire drives) that
you want to use."
The drives option is only to specify drive types IMHO.
Not according to the above text. It says list all drives you want to include. So by process of elimination (reverse logic maybe), if you list all drives except one, then that one drive is excluded.
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You do not actually list the drive you want to exclude.
Instead you do not list the drive you want to exclude.
Make sure you list all other drives so they are included.