On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:41:06AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:10:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I instelled etch on my AMD64 using Len Sorenson's installer. > > But that installer only does sarge (I think). The etch installer would > have 2.6.15 and probably work better than mine.
Hmmm. Now that you point it out, I think you are right... My memory must be failing me. After yours, which got my hardware working (very important!) except for X, I did it over again with an etch installer. That was a while ago. (or did I do a sarge->etch dist-upgrade?) My kernel is is vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-amd64-generic. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux april 2.6.12-1-amd64-generic #1 Wed Sep 28 02:05:15 CEST 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > Now the time has come to create a few new partitions. In particular, > > I want to set up a new partition for /usr separate from /. > > > > I have found the installer's partitioning tool (via its text > > interface) to be a very convenient for setting up LVM on RAID. It > > certainly worked better than me trying to figure out everything that > > had to be done using mdadm and lvm2 directly. > > > > What partitioning tool was that, and how should I go about using it on > > a running system? Is it available separate from the installer? Or > > should I boot the installer and start it in some kind of non-install > > mode? > > I believe it is parted. Not sure if it is a custom interface for it or > not. So I guess the (revised) question becomes, what user-interface front end to the partition editor was in the etch installer back then (and probably still now). Or: is it safe to boot the netinstall CD and create a few new LVM partitions without risking the existing setup by a slip of the finger? The big advantage of the user interface is that it really does get all the details right. -- hendrik > > Len Sorensen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
