On Monday 13 December 2004 17:17, David Bruce wrote: > I just did a new installation with the sarge-i386-netinst.iso and was > generally very impressed, particularly with the support for LVM and > software RAID. My box used to have Windows 98 on hda and Debian on > hdb, until hdb died an abrupt hardware death (but I had backups). > Having read that the latest debian-installer supported RAID and LVM, > I decided to venture into these realms and purchased two spiffy new > 160GB IDE drives. I set up my new system as follows: > > hda: new 160BG drive: > hda1 128MB /boot > hda3 5GB vfat area for Windows backup > hda4 1GB swap > hda5 120GB area for RAID/LVM > rest of hda - empty > > hdb: original Windows98 hd, not modified > > hdc: new 160GB drive partitioned exactly like hda > > hdd:CDR/CDROM > > I made hda5 and hdc5 into a RAID-1 device, used this as a physical > volume for a LVM volume group, and then doled out various logical > volumes for the Debian install, which went without a hitch - very > impressive! > > Now, the only negative/constructive feedback: the installer detected > the Windows installation on hdb and created a corresponding entry in > the grub menu.lst, but it didn't work, because it failed to take into > account the inability of Windows to boot from anything other than the > first disk. I fixed this by adding the following lines in the > installer-generated Windows boot stanza: > > map (hd0) (hd1) > map (hd1) (hd0) > > and everything works perfectly. > > I think that the installer should automatically put in lines to do > this remappiing whenever it finds a Windows installation on a disk > other than hda (or hd0, in grub-speak).
You should submit this as an installation report <http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template> if you haven't done so already. Otherwise, your suggestions could soon be forgotten. It is much easier for the developers to track issues when they are placed in the BTS. -- Frederik Dannemare | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=Frederik+Dannemare http://frederik.dannemare.net | http://www.linuxworlddomination.dk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
