RE: [Cooker] Yay! Mods for installing an LVM root work!

2001-09-13 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
I think support for configuring LVM at install time would be great. It is already there. What does not work is configuring LVM with diskdrake after installation (due to devfs naming confusion). Everything you describe further on is already there if you configure as expert. You say yourself it

Re: [Cooker] Yay! Mods for installing an LVM root work!

2001-09-13 Thread svetljo
Borsenkow Andrej wrote: I think support for configuring LVM at install time would be great. and what about striped LVM ( creating, stripesize),who asks you for the name of the LV, readahead, wich PV's to use It is already there. What does not work is configuring LVM with diskdrake after

RE: [Cooker] Yay! Mods for installing an LVM root work!

2001-09-13 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
I think support for configuring LVM at install time would be great. and what about striped LVM ( creating, stripesize),who asks you for the name of the LV, readahead, wich PV's to use O.K. not in these details. You create 0x8e (IIRC) partition that becomes PV (hmm ... not sure what

Re: [Cooker] Yay! Mods for installing an LVM root work!

2001-09-13 Thread svetljo
Borsenkow Andrej wrote: I think support for configuring LVM at install time would be great. and what about striped LVM ( creating, stripesize),who asks you for the name of the LV, readahead, wich PV's to use O.K. not in these details. You create 0x8e (IIRC) partition that becomes PV (hmm

RE: [Cooker] Yay! Mods for installing an LVM root work!

2001-09-13 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
echo 0x3a00 /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev This is not needed at all. Currently initrd mounts kernel and leaves real-root-dev to be RAM disk and system is happy with it: [root@cooker root]# cat /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev 256 Even worse, you *must*not* do it. If you change

RE: [Cooker] Yay! Mods for installing an LVM root work!

2001-09-12 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
I have finally gotten some time to get back to my project of making the installer install on an LVM root (and boot it afterward :-) and I am pleased to report that my mods work! With a caveat or two that I am hoping I can get help working out here. Congratulations! :-) Still, have you

RE: [Cooker] Yay! Mods for installing an LVM root work!

2001-09-12 Thread SI Reasoning
I am pretty new to LVM and have not tried it yet but this thought came to mind. Since LVM can dynamically change partition sizes and allow for you to add and subtract hard drive space on the fly... why not have mandrake create lvm by default? Even if the root directory was not run with LVM every

Re: [Cooker] Yay! Mods for installing an LVM root work!

2001-09-12 Thread svetljo
but if we had the the lvm-1.0.1rc2 code in the kernel and the tools after Sistina we should heve access to both pre lvm-0.9.1beta8 and lvm-1.0 and after created VG's and LV's Pixel wrote: Christian Bricart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] - Downward compatibility pb Not true (anymore). LVM