Re: debianinstaller root+raid+lvm on U30

2005-07-11 Thread Adam Snodgrass
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:34:52PM +0100, Simon Heywood wrote: > I've had no end of trouble with SILO and RAID-1. On my first few > attempts to install Debian on the Netra, I ran into what I thought was a > bug in silo.c, and hacking around with it produced varying degrees of > success. As far as

Re: debianinstaller root+raid+lvm on U30

2005-07-11 Thread Simon Heywood
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:58:09 -0500, Adam Snodgrass wrote: > Is SILO aware of RAID or LVM? I guess I could go back and blow all this > stuff away and create a non-RAID, non-LVM partition at the start of both > disks for /boot; suboptimal but I guess I'll take what I can get. I've had no end of tro

Re: debianinstaller root+raid+lvm on U30

2005-07-11 Thread Adam Snodgrass
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 07:27:52PM +0100, Simon Heywood wrote: > I seem to remember (maybe from a previous thread on this list) that the > RAID features of the Debian-Installer don't work on SPARC machines. > I've certainly not been able to do that on my Netra T1 105. However, a > RAID-1 + LVM set

Re: debianinstaller root+raid+lvm on U30

2005-07-11 Thread Simon Heywood
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:53:55 -0500, Adam Snodgrass wrote: > I've been trying unsuccessfully for days now to install Debian onto a > U30 with 2x 9GB Cheetahs using RAID+LVM. (FWIW, a "normal" install > works fine). The major problem is that, no matter which version > (stable, testing, testing dail

debianinstaller root+raid+lvm on U30

2005-07-11 Thread Adam Snodgrass
Hi, I've been trying unsuccessfully for days now to install Debian onto a U30 with 2x 9GB Cheetahs using RAID+LVM. (FWIW, a "normal" install works fine). The major problem is that, no matter which version (stable, testing, testing daily image) of the DebianInstaller I use, it *refuses* to permit