raid1 installation part. successful, was: NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support
Hello,
I put together a noisy config with 2 scsi disks on a dumb scsi controller
on an otherwise homebrew i386 system.
I went through the install with the image provided by
Paul Fleischer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
available at http://www.daimi.au.dk/~pg/debian/netinst-raid1.iso
I managed to set up a /target tree on lvm on raid1 on scsi, but base
install failed (could not download coreutils), and no smoke test has taken
place. See below for details.
To summarize: I found all the neccessary tools! Good work! Thank you.
It needs a bit of polishing here and there, but AFAICS nothing really
difficult.
Cheers,
Erich
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INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
uname -a:
Date:
Method:
booting from CDROM
snip/
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked:[O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
configure MD[E]
configure LVM [E}
Create file systems:[O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system:[E]
Install boot loader:[ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
boot: linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium
* Choose Language (US English)
* Choose Country (Germany)
* Select a Keyboard Layout (PS/2, US_english)
* Detect and mount CD-ROM
* Load installer components
. lvmcfg, nobootloader
1. I did expect sw-raid or md to show up here, but it didn't
* Detect network hardware
* Configure the network (dhcp)
* Detect hardware (disks: 2 scsi, 1 ide, cdrom ide)
* Partition a hard drive
ide0 part1 30 MB /boot
scsi0 part1 1 GB +
scsi1 part1 1 GB == /dev/md/0
scsi0 part2 1 GB +
scsi1 part2 1 GB == /dev/md/1
* configure md
2. configure md is listed _after_ configure lvm, where I would expect
it the other way round. Not a big deal.
3. of course I forgot to mark partition type 'fd' and hat to go back.
Precise error message made that easy, though. :-)
4. it took several attempts until I found that mdadm (cat /proc/mdstat)
had some old junk information (2 broken md devs), which would prevent
the new partitions from showing up in the menus.
# mdadm --stop /dev/md/0
# mdadm --stop /dev/md/1
fixed that.
Of course I zeroed out the drives first and rebooted several times
after changes in the partition tables. But heck.
5. the first raid device was created and started to sync. Then I wanted
to create the second device. At first it seemed that it would block on
the sync to finish (I used to raidtools2, rather). But that proved
wrong. I could kill the mdadm --create ... process and restart.
Again it did block (blue screen, nothing moving). So I killed it again
and issued the command on the shell:
# mdadm --create /dev/md/1 --force -l 1 -n 2 -x 0
/dev/scsi/...target{0,1}.../part2
which did ask me, whether I wanted to proceed, yes or no. So maybe it
needs a do-it-and-don't-bother-me switch set?
At least I got 2 raid1 devices, synced and up, both consisting of 2
partitions on the scsi disks.
* configure lvm
6. lvmcfg complained, that it would not find any usable partitions. Which
is true, kind of, since none where marked 'LVM'. However, it's wrong,
kinf of, too, since it doesn't consult /dev/md devices, it seems.
# pvcreate -ff /dev/md/0
# pvcreate -ff /dev/md/1
Unfortunately, no change (I reselected configure lvm from the menu).
So I went ahead to do it on the shell
# vgcreate vg00 /dev/md/0
# vgextend vg00 /dev/md/1
which worked fine.
7. creating LVOLs worked as expected
/dev/vg00/lvol1 128 MB /
/dev/vg00/lvol2 256 MB /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol3 256 MB /var
/dev/vg00/lvol4 256 MB /tmp
/dev/vg00/lvol5 256 MB /home
* Configure and mount partitions
8. in addition I mounted /dev/hda1 to /boot (board cannot boot from scsi)
* Install the base system
fails consistently cannot download coreutils. Did delete the file in
/target/var/cache/apt/archives, but no change. But I believe this is a
problem with my CDRom not liking CD-RW's rather than anything else.
No messages on vc/3 or vc/4, though.
so giving at this point.
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Re: NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support
On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:36, Paul Fleischer wrote: It looks like I have finally made a working modified version of the NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support. This should make it a bit easier for people to test it. However, I do not have a proper place to put the cd image. Suggestions are welcome :-) I know it's a bad habit to answer my own requests, but I have found a place to put up the image. Let hope it can stay there. Thanks to all those offering space, and sorry if I didn't answer your mails. The image can be found here: http://www.daimi.au.dk/~pg/debian/netinst-raid1.iso Bugreports should currently be send directly to me, since there is nothing official about this image. Which leads me to a question: Would it be possible to get the mdcfg udeb into the official CVS repository and the official images? If yes, how? ;-) Thanks, -- Paul Fleischer // ProGuy proguy at proguy dot dk PGP key fingerprint: 755A 9FB3 F7E4 DB62 8154 C5D6 381B BBCD 7BE1 FF30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support
Hello, Paul Fleischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, It looks like I have finally made a working modified version of the NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support. This should make it a bit easier for people to test it. I would very much like to test this. This is my missing bit. However, I do not have a proper place to put the cd image. Suggestions are welcome :-) However, I lack public ftp space as well. So I repost the question: Is there a place, where this image can be made available? Thanks, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:45:13AM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote: Hello, Paul Fleischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, It looks like I have finally made a working modified version of the NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support. This should make it a bit easier for people to test it. I would very much like to test this. This is my missing bit. However, I do not have a proper place to put the cd image. Suggestions are welcome :-) However, I lack public ftp space as well. So I repost the question: Is there a place, where this image can be made available? I can provide space for http (i dont run a ftp) how big is the iso ? -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support
Finn-Arne Johansen writes: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:45:13AM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote: Hello, Paul Fleischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, It looks like I have finally made a working modified version of the NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support. This should make it a bit easier for people to test it. I would very much like to test this. This is my missing bit. However, I do not have a proper place to put the cd image. Suggestions are welcome :-) However, I lack public ftp space as well. So I repost the question: Is there a place, where this image can be made available? I can provide space for http (i dont run a ftp) how big is the iso ? just guessing from the name NetInst CD it could be 100 MB, if it is a complete image. Paul? Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 11:27, Erich Waelde wrote: Finn-Arne Johansen writes: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:45:13AM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote: Hello, Paul Fleischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, It looks like I have finally made a working modified version of the NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support. This should make it a bit easier for people to test it. I would very much like to test this. This is my missing bit. However, I do not have a proper place to put the cd image. Suggestions are welcome :-) However, I lack public ftp space as well. So I repost the question: Is there a place, where this image can be made available? I can provide space for http (i dont run a ftp) how big is the iso ? just guessing from the name NetInst CD it could be 100 MB, if it is a complete image. Paul? Correct... or well, almost, it's 114Mb, but that's close enough I guess :-) So, if something could be arrange, I think everyone would be happy :-) Thanks in advance. -- Paul Fleischer // ProGuy proguy at proguy dot dk PGP key fingerprint: 755A 9FB3 F7E4 DB62 8154 C5D6 381B BBCD 7BE1 FF30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support
Hi there, It looks like I have finally made a working modified version of the NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support. This should make it a bit easier for people to test it. However, I do not have a proper place to put the cd image. Suggestions are welcome :-) Cheers, -- Paul Fleischer // ProGuy proguy at proguy dot dk PGP key fingerprint: 755A 9FB3 F7E4 DB62 8154 C5D6 381B BBCD 7BE1 FF30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
