Re: [Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009-06-04 Thread Anton Piatek
2009/6/4 Vic l...@beer.org.uk: I just build everything excetp /boot into LVM these days. It makes life a lot easier when dealing with customers who have completely misunderstood how they're going to use their box... I do that too - because I never know how *I* want to use the box :p Anton --

Re: [Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Stimpson
-Original Message- From: James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 12:04:54 To: Hampshire LUG Discussion Listhampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks 2009/6/2 Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net: Hi Alan, On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 06:39

Re: [Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009-06-03 Thread Alan Pope
2009/6/2 Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net: On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 06:39:59PM +0100, Alan Pope wrote: You can turn an Ubuntu Live CD into a bootable modifiable USB stick easily with unetbootin. It's in the repo and is cross platform. Would love to see a demo of this at a meeting.. I'll be at

Re: [Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009-06-03 Thread Vic
You could get a usb-stick SD card reader and an SD card. The cards have write protect switches so should achieve what you want. That's *probably* good enough - but IIRC, the switch isn't a real write-protect at all; it's just an input to the s/w driver. A determined piece of malware (with

Re: [Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Tansom
** Vic l...@beer.org.uk [2009-06-02 18:55]: [1] No matter how impartial I try to be I have to admit that I have never tried Fedora, largely as a result of the pain that Red Hat has caused me (with RPM dependencies Dependencies are dependencies - they exist, whatever the distribution.

Re: [Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Tansom
** Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net [2009-06-02 21:41]: On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:52:44PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: Before I start rejigging the Ubuntu live CD I thought I'd see if anyone knew of an alternative that may save me some time. What I'm looking for a is a boot CD that has

[Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Tansom
Before I start rejigging the Ubuntu live CD I thought I'd see if anyone knew of an alternative that may save me some time. What I'm looking for a is a boot CD that has RAID and LVM support built in. Ideally it would automatically detect the RAID and mount any partitions on there, including any on

Re: [Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009-06-02 Thread Vic
What I'm looking for a is a boot CD that has RAID and LVM support built in. Fedora... Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Tansom
** Vic l...@beer.org.uk [2009-06-02 15:02]: What I'm looking for a is a boot CD that has RAID and LVM support built in. Fedora... ** end quote [Vic] I guess it makes sense that Fedora has a live CD too these days. I'll have to get over my bias [1] and take a look. I have to be honest and

Re: [Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009-06-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Alan, On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 06:39:59PM +0100, Alan Pope wrote: You can turn an Ubuntu Live CD into a bootable modifiable USB stick easily with unetbootin. It's in the repo and is cross platform. Would love to see a demo of this at a meeting.. Would make a great datacentre tool. Cheers,

Re: [Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009-06-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Paul, On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:52:44PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: Before I start rejigging the Ubuntu live CD I thought I'd see if anyone knew of an alternative that may save me some time. What I'm looking for a is a boot CD that has RAID and LVM support built in. Ideally it would