2009/5/15 Amos Shapira <[email protected]> > 2009/5/15 <[email protected]> > > The distinction between desktop and server in ubuntu is an install > > option not anything else. To add lvm to your existing system just > > 'apt-get install lvm2'. > > > > To convert an existing setup to lvm you have to have some free space > > (partitions or whole harddisks to use). > > That's probably the way to convert an existing system to LVM. > > If you want to install Ubuntu with LVM straight away then it's a bit > more tricky since the LVM package is not included in the installation > CD so you have to: > > 1. Boot live cd. > 2. open shell > 3. "apt-get install lvm2" > 4. insmod dm_mod > 5. create PV, VG, LV's. Remember that you need to keep /boot on a > regular partition since grub can't read LVM. > > (I can't remember off the top of my head now whether the GUI installer > will support creation of LV's once it finds PV's and VG's. In any case > it will be able to recognize the LV's and allow creation of > filesystem/swap partitions on top of them). > > 6. install system from live to hard disk > 7. "mount -bind ..." special filesystems (proc, sys, dev) under the > hard-disk mount point > 8. mount /boot under the right mount point on hard disk > > (the above two steps are required because the lvm package install > kernel modules and run initramfs) > > 9. chroot to the hard disk partition > 10. "apt-get install lvm2" again on the hard disk. > > That's more or less it. > > That sounds fraught. Are you sure I can't just go with the alternate cd which will walk me thru lvm and still give me a desktop kernel/system?
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