All, Searching for an opinion, would anyone on the list be able to give me smoe feedback as to wether or not this request would warrant buying a support contract? This is a feature I need to get working very soon and I am in search of an option.
-Joel On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:23 AM, None Atall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fredrik, > Thank you very much for your prompt response! Looking back at my email I > believe I gave the wrong impression, I am using a preseed file with disk > recipe's, please take a look here: > > http://pastebin.com/f46b46a25 > > Maybe I didnt do the second recipe correctly? I tried this with hardy as > you can see, but the second part: d-i partman-auto-raid/recipe, doesnt > appear to do anything at all, MD devices are never setup, but the raid > slices are setup properly with the linux-raid-autodetect type. > > I have been using this document as a reference: > https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/installation-guide/amd64/preseed-contents.html > > to create my preseed file and disk recipe, it indicates that what I am > doing should work, but I believe it has been copy/pasted directly from > debian as indicated by the /dev/discs/disc0/disc syntax that is used in > the example. > > -Joel > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Fredrik Jonsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Hello Joel! >> >> >> >> Ubuntu Server can be installed using Kickstart answer files due to the >> fact that Ubuntu has its own implementation of Kickstart ( >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KickstartCompatibility ). There is a >> graphical tool to create kickstart answer files that is called >> "system-config-kickstart". You simply install it as any other package (sudo >> aptitude install system-config-kickstart –y) on your Ubuntu Desktop system >> and with that tool you specify your disk partitioning for your target >> installation. >> >> >> >> However i whould recommend you to take a deeper look on Seed answer files >> instead of Kickstart answerfiles, due to the fact that you have more >> configuration options and is more native in Ubuntu due to the fact that it >> comes from Debian instead of Red Hat. >> >> >> >> Good luck! >> >> >> >> Fredrik Jonsson >> >> Ubuntu Server Team Member >> >> >> >> *Från:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *För *None Atall >> *Skickat:* den 6 augusti 2008 15:43 >> *Till:* [email protected] >> *Ämne:* partman-auto-raid >> >> >> >> Hello Everyone, >> >> >> >> First I would like to say that I am very happy with Ubuntu Server. At my >> current company I was able to get everything moved over to Ubuntu server and >> we have been using ubuntu-server in production since EDGY! >> >> >> >> >> >> Now onto the puzzle, >> >> >> >> Since edgy there has been some question about preseeding raid installs >> that use MD instead of LVM. I do apologize if this is an old cut on the >> finger of the list, but my intention is merely to gather some facts, not to >> pour lemon juice on it. >> >> >> >> My question, of course, is: >> >> Is partman-auto-raid planned to be implemented? >> >> >> >> I have downloaded the alternate-server cd as well as the reg server cd and >> there is no partman-auto-raid package on either of them. I did find a >> reference here: >> >> http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/partman-auto-raid >> >> >> >> That seems to indicate that the package should be there? If I am >> misreading this I am sorry. >> >> >> >> I also searched your mail archives and found 4 references to >> partman-auto-raid, but I didn't see any action on the mentions. This is a >> package I really need, the small company I started at is now approaching 200 >> servers and we keep adding more, I don't have the time to manually >> partition the drives anymore, please help! >> >> >> >> is there a way I can copy the package into the pool/p/partman-auto-raid >> and rebuild the Release files to get this to load when the installer starts? >> I am really willing to help any way I can because I think that adds value >> to ubuntu-server in a large way, before I started using ubuntu I used >> kickstart on RedHat ES, and I think kickstart is the only reason I would >> consider using Redhat. >> >> >> >> -Joel >> > >
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