On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 16:34, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, James Gregory wrote: > >On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:17 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> | Debian has some good points and some very serious failings. One I have > >> | just come across was in trying to install RAID and LVM at the same > >> | time. In fact even trying to install RAID as part of the installation > >> | didn't want to work for me using the debian-installer because I wanted > >> | to install LVM on RAID 1 arrays. I could have had LVM as part of the > >> | installation setup but then that wouldn't have been on RAID arrays. > >> | > >> | With RedHat (use Fedora for current installs) at least I can get RAID 1 > >> | on _all_ of my installed partitions and can then do LVM on those RAID > >> | arrays where I want it. > >> | > >> | To me this is a major shortfall in Debian. > >> > >> 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? > > Trival! You just hack the debian installer partitioner 'partman' to > support LVM on RAID1!
Heavens, so simple when it is explained! > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- 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
