Re: live cd install to a LV

2014-07-14 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 13, 2014, at 9:43 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > When I try this with the Fedora 21 installer, it works the same. So maybe a > bug filed. While the current behavior makes sense if there's enough space to > do it. It doesn't make sense to fail this way if there's space in the VG but > not en

Re: live cd install to a LV

2014-07-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 13, 2014, at 9:09 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > Above the Volume Group pop-up is a Size field, that's for the LV, and you can > change that from 500mb to something sane. Desired Capacity. Not Size. So I just did a pvresize to give up 1GB to back myself out of this stuck state and it does

Re: live cd install to a LV

2014-07-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 13, 2014, at 7:52 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > > The LVM system has this to say: > > PV is 148.53GiB consumed 100% by a VG, extents are 32MiB. > pvdisplay and vgdisplay report free space 1805/56.41GiB. > The installer reports 1.71GiB available space. Somewhere between the tools > to which

Re: live cd install to a LV

2014-07-13 Thread Mike Wright
07/11/2014 01:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Jul 11, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to install a live CD to a logical volume any more? Yes. I've tried repeatedly and just when I think I've got it the installer refuses to proceed. What's the filename of th

Re: live cd install to a LV

2014-07-11 Thread Mike Wright
07/11/2014 01:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Another way is to use cloud images to bypass the installer entirely. Download a qcow2 image, do a yum update to bring it up to date, then make snapshots of that for each VM, point each VM to a different snapshot, and within each VM regenerate machine-i

Re: live cd install to a LV

2014-07-11 Thread Mike Wright
07/11/2014 01:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Jul 11, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to install a live CD to a logical volume any more? Yes. I've tried repeatedly and just when I think I've got it the installer refuses to proceed. What's the filename of th

Re: live cd install to a LV

2014-07-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 11, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to install a live CD to a logical volume any more? Yes. > I've tried repeatedly and just when I think I've got it the installer > refuses to proceed. What's the filename of the ISO you're using? What are the steps

live cd install to a LV

2014-07-11 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, Is it possible to install a live CD to a logical volume any more? I've tried repeatedly and just when I think I've got it the installer refuses to proceed. At one time this was possible. I needed lot of copies of f14 to use as virtual machines so I installed to hard disk and on com