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Re: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation



    "Sven" == Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:

    Sven> On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 09:54:14PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad
    Sven> wrote:

    >> 
    >> 1) PowerMac does not currently have Partition types for
    >> Linux. Today we are just using an Apple defined type
    >> (Apple_UNIX_SVR2) which is "safe".

    Sven> What exactly do you mean by safe ?

I meant that it does not cause Apple's OF and other software to barf.
Presumably Apple's code will tolerate unknown partition types....

    >> 3) A proposal (from Sven, for example) is to use 'Linux LVM' as
    >> a partition type on PowerMac systems.

    Sven> Yes, we should do the same for 'Linux RAID' (altough i would
    Sven> use an underscore in both cases).

OK.

    >> grunt work), but I'm not even sure where to start. I don't even

    Sven> Maybe start with the lvm-tools debian maintainers ?

OK.

/Shyamal



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