Re: [CentOS] C 7 installation annoyances

2018-10-16 Thread Ian Mortimer
On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 11:05 +0100, Nux! wrote: > The EL7 partitioner is a complete disaster and I regularly bitch > about it on twitter and irc. > You could try to convince it with kickstart and bypass the GUI > altogether. I agree and also use kickstart but sometimes, for a one-off install, I

Re: [CentOS] C 7 installation annoyances

2018-10-16 Thread David C. Miller
- Original Message - > From: "mark" > To: "CentOS mailing list" > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 2:36:38 PM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] C 7 installation annoyances > Gordon Messmer wrote: >> On 10/16/18 1:24 PM, mark wrote: >> >>>

Re: [CentOS] C 7 installation annoyances

2018-10-16 Thread mark
Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 10/16/18 1:24 PM, mark wrote: > >> Gordon Messmer wrote: >> >>> As best I recall, there's no support in the UI for LVM volumes with >>> RAID level. (And I don't see any such option in the kickstart >>> documentation, which also suggests that it won't be present in the

Re: [CentOS] C 7 installation annoyances

2018-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/16/18 1:24 PM, mark wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: As best I recall, there's no support in the UI for LVM volumes with RAID level. (And I don't see any such option in the kickstart documentation, which also suggests that it won't be present in the UI.) The supported configuration is to

Re: [CentOS] C 7 installation annoyances

2018-10-16 Thread mark
Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 10/15/18, mark wrote: > >> In the disk partitioner, I can't >> 1) choose to make the LVM with root and swap be on a RAID 1. Is there >> some way to do that, rather than two separate partitions RAIDed? > > As best I recall, there's no support in the UI for LVM volumes

Re: [CentOS] C 7 installation annoyances

2018-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/16/18 5:54 AM, Young, Gregory wrote: As for the use of software RAID. Don't. They are useless, particularly with Linux. The trend seems to be moving away from supporting software RAID in Linux in general, and in particular, RHEL/CentOS 7.5 had to hard drop support for HBE (Hybrid) RAID

Re: [CentOS] C 7 installation annoyances

2018-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/15/18, mark wrote: > In the disk partitioner, I can't > 1) choose to make the LVM with root and swap be on a RAID 1. Is there > some way to do that, rather than two separate partitions RAIDed? As best I recall, there's no support in the UI for LVM volumes with RAID level. (And I

Re: [CentOS] C 7 installation annoyances

2018-10-16 Thread Mark Milhollan
On Tue, 16 Oct 2018, Nux! wrote: >The EL7 partitioner is a complete disaster and I regularly bitch about >it on twitter and irc. Aye. It's annoying that the text mode installer can't manipulate partitioning at all -- they lost that when they made the installer "better". If it weren't for

Re: [CentOS] C 7 installation annoyances

2018-10-16 Thread Young, Gregory
-Original Message- From: CentOS On Behalf Of Nux! Sent: October 16, 2018 6:05 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] C 7 installation annoyances The EL7 partitioner is a complete disaster and I regularly bitch about it on twitter and irc. You could try to convince

Re: [CentOS] C 7 installation annoyances

2018-10-16 Thread Nux!
will be picked up by the EL7 installer so you can just use them as they are. hth -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro - Original Message - > From: "mark" > To: "CentOS mailing list" > Sent: Monday, 15 October, 2018 21:

Re: [CentOS] C 7 installation annoyances

2018-10-15 Thread Simon Matter
> In the disk partitioner, I can't > 1) choose to make the LVM with root and swap be on a RAID 1. Is there > some way to do that, rather than two separate partitions RAIDed? > 2) They don't align, so I can't clone /dev/sda to /dev/sdb as a > failover (for /boot and /boot/efi).

Re: [CentOS] C 7 installation annoyances

2018-10-15 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 10/15/18 3:22 PM, mark wrote: In the disk partitioner, I can't 1) choose to make the LVM with root and swap be on a RAID 1. Is there some way to do that, rather than two separate partitions RAIDed? 2) They don't align, so I can't clone /dev/sda to /dev/sdb as a

[CentOS] C 7 installation annoyances

2018-10-15 Thread mark
In the disk partitioner, I can't 1) choose to make the LVM with root and swap be on a RAID 1. Is there some way to do that, rather than two separate partitions RAIDed? 2) They don't align, so I can't clone /dev/sda to /dev/sdb as a failover (for /boot and /boot/efi). I've