On 10.06.2013 03:39, poma wrote:
> On 06.06.2013 10:30, Gerhard Gappmeier wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to get F18 installed on a server (x86_64). The setup is quiet 
>> easy 
>> and typical for a server:
>>
>> Partitions:
>> sda1: primary partition, 512M
>> sda2: primary partition, rest of the disk
>> sdb1: primary partition, 512M
>> sdb2: primary partition, rest of the disk
>>
>> SOFT RAID:
>> /dev/md0: raid1, consists of sda1 and sdb1
>> /dev/md1: raid1, consists of sda2 and sdb2
>>
>> md0: formatted with ext2, mounted as /boot
>> md1: LVM physical device.
>>
>> LVM:
>> LVM VG: "vg" using md1
>> LVM LV: "root", formatted as ext4, mounted as /
>> LVM LV: "var", formatted as ext4, mounted as /var (this is for libvirt disk 
>> images)
>> LVM LV: "swap", swap partition
>>
>> Grub installed in both MBRs of sda and sdb, to allow  booting from both 
>> disks.
>>
>> Unfortunately the installer does not allow to create this kind of partition 
>> layout. With F17 this was possible.
>>
>> What I've already tried:
>>
>> 1.) creating the layout manually using fdisk, mdadm and lvm tools. Selecting 
>> only the mountpoint in installer: This does not work. The installer does not 
>> correctly recognize the layout. I was not able to select the mountpoints.
>>
>> 2.) Installing F17 and upgrade using fedup. This fails. Seems like fedup is 
>> not able to handle this layout.
>>
>> 3.) Kickstart: It looks like this is most likely the way to get it working. 
>> But I was not able to write a working kickstart script. The online doc is 
>> not 
>> enough for that. I found same kickstart examples using Google, but these 
>> didn't work either.
>>
>> Maybe somebody can assists me with that or has a better idea how to install 
>> that system.
> 19-TC2 driven by anaconda-19.30.3 is capable for a mentioned layout.
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-TC2/Fedora/[i386|x86_64]/iso/Fedora-19-TC2-[i386|x86_64]-netinst.iso
> or
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/bfo/bfo.iso
> i.e. Pre-release > Fedora-19-Branched-[i386|x86_64]
>
Could you give here a hint about how to create such layout? I was trying
to do LVM on RAID1 but I was only able to create file systems on RAID
devices or on LVM volumes but not to combine them together. I must be
missing something in GUI.


Mateusz Marzantowicz
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