On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 16:16, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="James Gregory"> > > > > installation quirks are more relative to your level of compentence with > > > linux. > > > > So just how do you setup LVM on RAID1 from the Debian installer? > > You don't, certainly not with the old boot-floppies installer (the new d-i > one will have LVM/RAID functionality). To set things up right, however, you > can use an alternative installer, or you configure the disks manually and > copy an image/filesystem over. I've automated that with FAI in the past. > > Most Debian systems administrators I know do not use the installer, and have > no reason to - there are much faster ways of bootstrapping a machine than > using any interactive installer. >
Having said that, the next problem is that you know how to do it, the Deb expert next to you knows how to do that, but beyond that there is very little assistance out there other than the mail lists, which should be the last resort, as most of them tend to retort, sometimes rightly, "RTFM". > So if you're trying to point out a basic fallacy in the above statement, I'm > not sure you've succeeded. ;-) > > - Jeff > > -- > GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norway http://2004.guadec.org/ > > "I'm coding 'gless' right now ... I'm not living up to the motto 'gless > is gmore', I should have started with gmore. ;-)" - Havoc Pennington, > 1998 -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ Flatter government, not fatter government - Get rid of the Australian states. ------------------------------------------ To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. - Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
