Bug#307470: Failed to setup RAID with netinstaller
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Steffen Kaiser wrote:
| Package: partitioner
| Version: included in netinst,iso
|
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc3/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
| from 2005-05-03
|
| During the installation I'm offered to partition the host; I have two
| hard drives installed, which shall become RAID1 system partitions,
| therefore I thought to create the following HD layout (for each disk):
|
| 1. /boot
| 2. swap
| 3. RAID1 partition
|
| within the RAID1 partition I wanted to create separate paritions for /,
| /var and /tmp.
|
| However, the partitioner does not create any parition table within the
| md-device, hence, to create more than one partition in it fails.
| However, if you choose to let the partitioner automatically create an
| layout in the md-device, it creates multiple partitions ;-)
|
| I would say that the bug is that you cannot partition md-devices.
|
| I also tried to put an LVM onto the RAID1 device, but that failed with
| the error that there is no unused partition.
|
| Also, when there are the md- partitions, they are not displayed when you
| reboot, but only after you select to create a RAID device, which fails,
| because there is no unused partition left. When you return to the main
| screen, the RAID device is displayed.
|
| Bye.
|
If you have read the RAID Howto you would know that it is INPOSIBLE to
partition RAID devices. For partitioning RAID your only solution is LVM.
How ever I would offer you to use multiple RAID1 devices to match your
partitioning scheme.
Regards
M.Marinov
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