I am trying to make an install on two disks using lvm; but I want to do a stripe of the two disks. I know lvm has raid0 functionality, but in the install tool it is not clear how to do this, since all you can select is to "Add to LVM", but it is not clear if it will stripe or concatenate the PV partitions. What I am trying is to setup a partition of type LVM "fd" on each drive, and then add them to the same LVM (in fact all of this wording should be changed, for example instead of "add to LVM", it should say "add to volume group"), where I would later create /usr, /home, etc.
Since I was not sure this would stripe the two partitions in the vg, I then tried to create a raid0 stripe out of two raid partitions, and add that resulting md to the vg; but this craps out the install interface and creates a vg that can not be removed. I can go a little further, if I format the md as ext2 or whatever, before changing its type to LVM, since apparently it has to **actually** create the meta device and start the raid modules in order to format the partition. The current install tool needs a lot of work as far as raid and lvm is concerned. Anyway, how do I do this? Would I have to to all this manually from the shell just before the filesystems tool (and how would I continue the install?) or is the install tool capable of this. All I want is a LVM volume group that is striped along to PV, or alternatively, a LVM volume group with one PV which is a two stripe raid 0 meta device. I would then put all my partitions except / and /boot on this volume group. BTW, I am using the ISOs from Dec 24, but since my machine can't boot from cdrom at the moment (don't ask, suffice to say I have 7 IDE devices and a Promise Ultra66 controller on an ABit KR7A-RAID), I am booting from a floppy with the "cdrom.img" of a few days ago. Thanks for any help ... ===== ________________________ Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE Linux Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
