Hi Erik, I'm still preparing some documentation, but here's the rough procedure. I'm sending a copy to debian-boot in case this is useful to anyone else.
Check the boot-floppies software out of the Debian CVS archive. See http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/README-CVS?rev=1.9&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup&cvsroot=debian-boot for details on how to do this. The version I checked out was the same as, or close to, what ended up being release 3.0.16 of the boot-floppies package. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/debian-boot-200110/msg00987.html details some modifications to the boot-floppies source so that dbootstrap will wait until installing the kernel before copying the network settings onto the target root filesystem and creating the dbootstrap_settings file. This is important if the root filesystem is to be mounted outside dbootstrap. Make an LVM-patched 2.4.10-ac11 (a later kernel might be better by now) kernel-image Debian package with the 'kernel-package' package. In boot-floppies/config, set the variable 'kver' to "2.4.10-ac11", or whatever you named your kernel. Copy the kernel-image package (that you just built) and the lvm10 package (from the Debian unstable archive) into sub-directory 'local' of the directory used for 'ftp_archive' in the file boot-floppies/config. Add "lvm10" to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/EXTRACT_LIST_i386. Add "lib/lvm-10/vgscan", "lib/lvm-10/vgchange" and "lib/lvm-10/lvscan" to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/SMALL_BASE_LIST_i386. The boot-floppies were otherwise built as normal - see the README files in the source for details on how to do this. I think I skipped the 1.2MB floppy images, since the root floppy got too big with the LVM tools. Boot and go through the installer until you have created your partitions, then choose "Execute a Shell". The LVM tools will be in /lib/lvm-10; run vgscan then pvcreate, lvcreate, etc. Make filesystems on your LVs as required, then mount them in your desired structure below /target. For example: mount /dev/vg0/lv0 /target mkdir /target/tmp /target/usr /target/var /target/home chmod 1777 /target/tmp mount /dev/vg0/lv1 /target/tmp mount /dev/vg0/lv2 /target/usr mount /dev/vg0/lv3 /target/var mkdir /target/var/log /target/var/lib mount /dev/vg0/lv5 /target/var/log mount /dev/vg0/lv6 /target/var/lib mount /dev/vg0/lv7 /target/home Exit the shell to return to the installer and continue from "Install Kernel and Driver Modules". The rest of the install should proceed normally, but if /boot is on a LVM logical volume, you won't be able to use "Make System Bootable" without a patched LILO, an initrd and some adjustment to /target/etc/lilo.conf. (In you do this, I recommend making a boot floppy, as initrd's are easy to get wrong and it's much easier to fix an initrd on a floppy and transfer it to the hard disk once it's working.) Hope this is what you wanted. There may be errors, as I haven't yet done a clean run though to test the procedure. If you find any errors or omissions, please let me know. Regards, Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
