Re: LVM install

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Markus Kolb wrote:
> On Saturday 19 July 2003 20:35, Tom Allison wrote:
>
> > I'm doing a new install from the floppies and was wondering if there
> > is anyway to do this with LVM on the drive?
> >
> > I was thinking of something like:
> >
> > /boot  ext2
> > swap
> > /root  ext3
> > /dev/LVM...  everything else (home, usr, var, opt, tmp)
> >
> > Doing this with SuSE was easy.
> > Doing this with gentoo was possible.
> > I have No Clue on how to do this with Debian.  Are the lv
> > applications necessary available during the installation or do I need
> > something else?
>
>
> I do not know any Debian installation media with support for LVM.
> So I have installed just a Debian woody base with 
> /boot ext2 16 MB
> swap
> /root reiserfs 200 MB
> I have added the LVM utilities and created the LVM partitions after 
> having a running base system.
> Then I've mounted the lvs to mountpoints like /mnt/usr, /mnt/var, 
> /mnt/tmp, ...
> next I've done a cp -aR /usr/* /mnt/usr/ and so on.
> next I've deleted the contents from /usr with rm -rf /usr/* and mounted 
> usr_lv to mountpoint /usr.

This should work for me then.
I was planning on something similar in structure.

What deb packages do you need for a basic config of LVM?


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