Re: Using existing LVM - bug in the Debian Installer?

2007-03-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 23 March 2007 12:44, Sander Marechal wrote: > Also, cjwatson mentioned that marking the original PV partitions for > use as LVM PV, then using the "manage LVM" option that appears and > writing the new partition tables should work, but I don't have the guts > to try that out on my server.

Re: Using existing LVM - bug in the Debian Installer?

2007-03-23 Thread Sander Marechal
Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 23 March 2007 08:33, Sander Marechal wrote: > From the output you show it looks like your current partitions do not have > type "linux raid" (fd) and possibly also not "linux lvm" (df) set. > The partitioner relies on that to recognize existing raid and lvm > partitio

Re: Using existing LVM - bug in the Debian Installer?

2007-03-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 23 March 2007 08:33, Sander Marechal wrote: > > When you get to partitioning, choose "manual" partitioning. The next > > dialog (the partitioners main screen) should show at the top the > > options "configure RAID" and "configure LVM". Select those and you > > will be asked if you want to

Re: Using existing LVM - bug in the Debian Installer?

2007-03-22 Thread Sander Marechal
Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 23 March 2007 00:54, Sander Marechal wrote: >> What I want to do is use the 128 Mb free space as /boot for a new >> install and create two new LVM volumes in my big volume group for the >> root and swap. How do I tell the installer to do that? It looks like >> the insta

Re: Using existing LVM - bug in the Debian Installer?

2007-03-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 23 March 2007 00:54, Sander Marechal wrote: > What I want to do is use the 128 Mb free space as /boot for a new > install and create two new LVM volumes in my big volume group for the > root and swap. How do I tell the installer to do that? It looks like > the installer doesn't recognise

Using existing LVM - bug in the Debian Installer?

2007-03-22 Thread Sander Marechal
Hello, I am having some trouble installing Debian/etch on my existing Debian/etch-xen server. I'm unsure how to accomplish what I want without wiping all my data. Currently my server runs Etch-xen. It's partitioned as follows: Hardware RAID #1: * 128 Mb ext3 /boot (for Xen) * 128