On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:07:37AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I would like to be able to use the Debian installer to create a system > in which all the partitions, including root, were managed by EVMS.
This is a duplicate of #223995 / #239892, I'd guess. > I don't have a good sense of what's involved in making this happen, > and it may be the installer team doesn't want the added complexity. The things that would be needed is: - Make sure the evms udeb works properly again (IIRC it's broken somehow, perhaps with regard to libraries or something). - Make a partman module for evms. This is definitely the most demanding task, and needs someone who's familiar with both evms and partman (which is a shell script of several thousand lines). - Test, integrate, debug :-) > There appear to be quite a few bugs against EVMS (mostly concerning > making initrd's) that probably need to be fixed before it can work > with the installer. ATM my current priority is getting _something_ into testing, so I can upload a fix to stable for #339891. > A more modest solution would be to provide instructions about how to > use EVMS with the installer. At the moment it appears to require a > two or three step process: > 1) install regular Debian system > 2) make EVMS system and partitions > 3) delete original system and reclaim its space. Well, yes and no. See the package "evms-bootdebug" -- with it, you can get into a rescue console, where you can convert your filesystems quite painlessly to EVMS drives -- no deletion needed. If you want to convert from ordinary volumes to EVMS+LVM2 (or something along those lines), you'd have to make new, move data and then delete, yes. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
