Re: [SLUG] Enterprise Platform

[Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, James Gregory wrote:
>On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:17 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
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>> | Debian has some good points and some very serious failings.  One I have
>> | just come across was in trying to install RAID and LVM at the same
>> | time.  In fact even trying to install RAID as part of the installation
>> | didn't want to work for me using the debian-installer because I wanted
>> | to install LVM on  RAID 1 arrays.  I could have had LVM as part of the
>> | installation setup but then that wouldn't have been on RAID arrays.
>> |
>> | With RedHat (use Fedora for current installs) at least I can get RAID 1
>> | on _all_ of my installed partitions and can then do LVM on those RAID
>> | arrays where I want it.
>> |
>> | To me this is a major shortfall in Debian.
>> 
>> installation quirks are more relative to your level of compentence
>> with linux.
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>So just how do you setup LVM on RAID1 from the Debian installer?

Trival!  You just hack the debian installer partitioner 'partman' to
support LVM on RAID1!

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