Re: Partman-Auto - Multi-Disk OR Use Existing Layout via Preseed

["Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk>]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 01:54:40PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Matthew Drobnak <mdrobnak@appnexus.com> wrote:
> > On 04/26/2012 08:50 AM, Tom H wrote:
> >>
> >> The only, somewhat unhelpful, thing that I can contribute is that I've
> >> only been able to use two disks with pressed when creating an mdraid
> >> array. It hasn't worked for me either to add a second PV (even though
> >> the "device{ }" value is specifically mentioned in the LVM section of
> >> the documentation) or to have "/usr" and/or "/var" on a second disk.
> >
> > Well, that's at least comforting to know that I'm not crazy. :)
> >
> > I wish there was an easy way to get the partitioner code from FAI into d-i.
> > They use parted on the backend as well, but their syntax is a lot simpler,
> > and supports multiple disks. I just can't bring myself to go the whole FAI
> > route just because partitioning doesn't work the way I'd like. I am going to
> > try something hacky but not that bad, and see if I can get this to work:
> >
> > Explicitly say the volume group for sysvg is 10GBs. Define the LVs inside
> > there. Define an additional unused partition to fill the disk.
> >
> > In post, remove the extra partition from sdb, copy everything in /boot to
> > /dev/sda1, and reinstall grub. That should work.
> 
> It's too bad that kickstart isn't fully functional on Debian and Ubuntu...
> 
It's barely functional on Red Hat :) I find that I have to do an isntall using
kickstart to get an initial config then cut it to shreds to remove the stuff
I don't need :(

AndyC