Brent L. Bates wrote:
I've been searching Google for answers and can't find any, so I decided
to check here.
I'm trying to do a clean install of SL 5.4. I'm booting from an SL 5.4
x86_64 DVD. When I get to the point of custom partitioning my drives,
Anaconda makes a mess of things. I have 4 drives and I want 4 partions on
each drive. The first partion will be `/boot', next `/', then `/data', and
finally a swap partion. As I create each partition on each drive, Anaconda
will suddenly rearrange the order of the partions. When I go onto another
drive, the order may be different than the last drive I just partitioned.
When I try to do the 4th and last partition, I get an `Extended' 4th partion
(which is empty) and a real 5th partition, instead of a simple single
partition.
In the end, what I want is the first partition on each drive combined
into a software RAID 1 and be `/boot'. The next 2 sets will be software RAID
0's and `/' & `/data'. The final partitions will be 4 separate swap
partitions that the OS will take care of.
I've tried creating all the partitions on one drive and then moving onto
the next one and the next one, but it scrambles things up. I've tried
creating the first partition on each drive, then combining them into the RAID
1 md0 device, and specifying the files system type, and mount point `/boot'.
Next I go onto the next partition, which I've tried as a software RAID 0
partition and swap at various times. This one usually works, but not always.
When I get to the 3rd partition, then it will suddenly rearrange the
partitions on that drive. I've even seen it suddenly create a swap partition
on a different drive than what I'm actually working on.
I've done this with earlier versions of SL, but I don't remember having
this much trouble with Anaconda randomly rearranging things and creating an
extra unneeded partion. Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
What *I* would do with something that complicated.
I would do a <Ctrl>-<Alt>-F2 on the screen before that and do all the
partitions by hand. Then on the customizing screen, you just have to
link them together.
But if you are going to do it by the graphical install, make *sure* that
you select "Primary Partition" for each and every partition. The one
partition that you don't do that to is going to get popped over to an
extended partition.
Troy
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