Re: requirement to (re)format volumes when installing

2012-12-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 10, 2012, at 4:56 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 14:43 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> 1. To properly install to hardware RAID 0, 10, 5, 6, I effectively >> have to learn kickstart. I can properly create the volumes myself, >> informing the file system at make time wh

Re: requirement to (re)format volumes when installing

2012-12-10 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-12-10 15:56 (GMT-0800) Adam Williamson composed: Windows is very keen on formatting disks, or at least was last time I checked it. Lately? You had to go into an advanced dialog to do anything other than let it have its way with an entire disk. Not that I can remember seeing. I al

Re: requirement to (re)format volumes when installing

2012-12-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 14:43 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > 1. To properly install to hardware RAID 0, 10, 5, 6, I effectively > have to learn kickstart. I can properly create the volumes myself, > informing the file system at make time what the chunk and stripe width > are. The anaconda requirement

requirement to (re)format volumes when installing

2012-12-10 Thread Chris Murphy
There are problems with the requirement to format volumes in anaconda (either autopart or Manual Partitioning.) 1. To properly install to hardware RAID 0, 10, 5, 6, I effectively have to learn kickstart. I can properly create the volumes myself, informing the file system at make time what the c