jef e wrote:
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.
As you're comfortable with systemimager (I've had a quick look, but
never used it), surely you can continue to use it.
Linux generally handles changing hardware well; the major problems I
have when recovering/transferring a system is coercing the disk
partitions into shape. Part of that problem arises because I want a
different layout:-)
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 :)
swap is still important, and I still don't believe a swap partition is a
good idea, unless you can dedicate a drive for swap.
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Cheers
John
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