On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 01:12:59AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:50:21PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Perhaps a more do-able goal would be to make it possible for someone who > > wanted to setup using evms to shell out of the installer and do the > > partitioning via the evms tools, rather than the main installer script > > (which I take it is partman). > > Sure, but you still need to teach partman that it can install to (but not > boot from) EVMS devices.
Once the devices are mounted, does the installer need any special help to know it can install to them? > > > I'm going to be playing around with moving toward that intermediate > > goal by creating an appropriately evms enabled/patched kernel for the > > installer and a working evms udeb. Given that the initramfs tools are > > apparently a bit of a mess at the moment, and that I don't know much > > about this area, I may not get anywhere.... > > You don't need a special kernel these days. Just make sure the evms package > is installed before the initramfs is generated, and it should be fine (to > the degree that what we have today is fine -- expect this to get better over > the coming month or so). > The EVMS site lists a number of patches to get all the features working, even with a 2.6 kernel (in particular snapshot and bad block relocation). Are these in the default Debian kernels? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
