preseed with USB-Stick and RAID on internal disks
Hi guys,
I'm trying to create a preseed file on Squeeze for a HP Proliant NL36,
which should boot from USB and use all four internal disks with RAID 5:
internal 8GB USB-Stick:
/dev/sda | ------ atomic partitioning ------ |
internal 1000GB HDDs:
/dev/sdb | ------------- RAID5 ------------- |
/dev/sdc | ------------- RAID5 ------------- |
/dev/sdd | ------------- RAID5 ------------- |
/dev/sde | ------------- RAID5 ------------- |
But I'm stuck at the beginning - what do I need to choose in my preseed
file ? Do I need to define the partitions on the USB stick ? In my
opinion it's not needed because I choose "atomic". But then it's a
little bit confusing because I choose an expert recipe too. Something is
wrong in my config.... with this configuration my system will be
installed to the USB the way I want, but no RAID is created.
-------- 8< -------- 8< -------- 8< -------- 8< -------- 8< --------
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm_span boolean true
d-i partman-auto/purge_lvm_from_device boolean true
d-i partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true
d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
multiraid :: \
64 10000 1000000000 \
method{ raid } \
. \
64 10000 1000000000 \
method{ raid } \
. \
64 10000 1000000000 \
method{ raid } \
. \
64 10000 1000000000 \
method{ raid } \
. \
d-i partman-auto-raid/recipe string \
5 4 0 - - /dev/sdb#/dev/sdc#/dev/sdd#/dev/sde \
. \
-------- 8< -------- 8< -------- 8< -------- 8< -------- 8< --------
Is it possible to do an atomic _and_ raid setup at the same time ?
Or shall I just use "d-i preseed/late_command string in-target" to
create the RAID array with "mdadm --create --verbose --force
--assume-clean /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sd[bcde]" at the
end of my setup ? This way seems to be much easier than using the recipe.
Regards
Peter
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