On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 14:08, Noll, Ralph wrote: > Whenever we load SUSE 8.x under z/vm we get the option to setup an lvm > At install time > > Debian doesn't seem to have that.. > > We can only load Debian on physical devices at install time and add an > Lvm later. > > Would like to be able have certain sys dirs (/var.../usr..etc) > On an lvm at install time, because these directories can > Be difficult to move from a physical device to a logical device > Once the operating system is up and running... > > Been able to accomplish that with SUSE.. Haven't figured out howto on > Debian > Or if it is even possible.....
Woody definitely doesn't let you do a Debian install to an LVM. It's not at all clear whether that support will go into the Sarge installer or not. My guess is (for S/390 anyway), not. A lot of people (mostly in the x86 world) want it, but getting the installer to do it right, in the general case, is surprisingly tricky. Cross-platform partition management is a really hard problem; parted helps a lot, but it's not clear that it's going to be stable enough to make work in time for the Sarge release. As I package Sarge for an S/390 release, I'll take a look at what LVM support in the installer would take, but I would certainly not count on it. For the time being: do a basic (no task) installation. Apt-get the LVM tools. Create your LVM partitions, mount them where they should go, copy the old filesystem data to them, and edit /etc/fstab (if you're doing this with /usr then you'll need to go single-user, etc...). After you have the system coming up with the filesystems on the right LVM devices, *then* run tasksel to load it up with all the software you want. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
