Re: [CentOS] partitionless installation

2013-11-26 Thread Халезов Иван
On 25.11.2013 23:56, Peter wrote: On 11/26/2013 05:28 AM, Халезов Иван wrote: Is it possible to install CentOS 6 without disk partitioning? Yes, it is, but there are a couple of caveats: 1. You can't use anaconda to do so directly. 2. You can't boot through grub (as someone else pointed

[CentOS] partitionless installation

2013-11-25 Thread Халезов Иван
Hello All! I have a lot of virtual machines with KVM hypervizor. For VM's disks I use LVM Volumes. It's more suitable to install virtual machines direct to the LV-volumes without making partition tables inside the LV. In this case it is very simple to perform online-resizing and mount

Re: [CentOS] partitionless installation

2013-11-25 Thread Халезов Иван
P.S. At this time my host OS and virtual machines (guests) are ubuntu 12.04. Also I want to have some virtual machines running CentOS 6 On 25.11.2013 20:28, Халезов Иван wrote: Hello All! I have a lot of virtual machines with KVM hypervizor. For VM's disks I use LVM Volumes. It's more

Re: [CentOS] partitionless installation

2013-11-25 Thread SilverTip257
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Халезов Иван i.khale...@rts.ru wrote: P.S. At this time my host OS and virtual machines (guests) are ubuntu 12.04. Also I want to have some virtual machines running CentOS 6 On 25.11.2013 20:28, Халезов Иван wrote: Hello All! I have a lot of virtual

Re: [CentOS] partitionless installation

2013-11-25 Thread Andrew Holway
I think you are asking if it is possible to install centos virtual machines without partitioning its LVM block device. I think you do not want to use any partitioning or LVM within your virtual machine? Yes, this is possible however it is annoying to make work as, iirc, the anaconda installer

Re: [CentOS] partitionless installation

2013-11-25 Thread Peter
On 11/26/2013 05:28 AM, Халезов Иван wrote: Is it possible to install CentOS 6 without disk partitioning? Yes, it is, but there are a couple of caveats: 1. You can't use anaconda to do so directly. 2. You can't boot through grub (as someone else pointed out). You can boot the kernel