Grant Waters wrote:
Have you tried using kickstart. I found that a very easy way of pre-setting the partitions and it worked fine.
This will be the eventual goal, I think. We are currently using Debian in combination with systemimager to mimic the same behavior. We've recently decided to go with RedHat for various reasons, so we're still goofing around with the various pieces and parts of the system to get comfortable.
However, I have to say that I've done dozens of RH5 install and generally the disk partitioning with the GUI worked fine too. It comes up with some default LVM layout which I delete completely in the GUI, then simply add my boot, var, swap and root partitions in that order, the size I want them and let it use extended partition if it needs to. Not been a problem.
I noticed the LVM thing, too, and got rid of it as well initially. My gripe is mainly that I'd prefer to control where on the disk each partition goes. I prefer /boot up front, and dislike certain other partions being extended partitions. Like I noted, not a big deal, but I just found it odd/frustrating that there seems to be no apparent logic to how Redhat is going to decide where to place each one, since it does so before I tell it what that particular slice is going to be.
Perhaps I'm just stuck in my ways from the days when it sometimes mattered where on a disk swap and other partitions lived for performance reasons. Showing my age, I guess :)
Thanks for all the help everyone. jef _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
