Re: preseed software raid, one device with many partitions?

I would love to, but from my googling it sounds like preseeding software raid
+ LVM is a black art of some sorts. Lots of chatter on google, but not much
solid info. If anyone has any examples of this, I'd love to see them.

TBH, I don't think the many raid device issue is a breaker, it just "looks"
messier then a nice hardware raid /dev/sda device.

We are using the following setting to preseed a LVM configuration during netinstaller setup on multiple servers without any issues.

d-i partman-auto/method string lvm

d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true

d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true

d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \

boot-root :: \

150 150 150 ext3 \

$primary{ } $bootable{ } \

method{ format } format{ } \

use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \

mountpoint{ /boot } \

. \

5120 5120 5120 ext3 \

$primary{ } method{ format } format{ } \

use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \

mountpoint{ / } \

. \

500 10000 1000000000 ext3 \

method{ format } format{ } $lvmok{ } \

use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \

mountpoint{ /var } \

. \

4096 4096 4096 linux-swap \

method{ swap } format{ } $lvmok { } \

d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true

d-i partman/choose_partition \

select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk

d-i partman/confirm boolean true

This works with the latest Debian 5.0.6. Please try this settings. I you want I could post our whole configuration.

Be careful that you are not missing any dots in the lines!

Mario

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