Re: [Test-Announce] LVM autopart testing
On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 14:06 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
Hey, folks.
So the Big LVM Autopart Controversy has been kicked upstairs to FESCo:
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/964
If they say 'go with LVM', we'll have to do that.
I have no idea what FESCo will decide, but we should cover our bets
either way, I think, so it will do no harm to do some testing of the LVM
autopart stuff over the weekend rather than wait till after FESCo makes
up its mind.
So, for those doing validation testing, if you could run a few test
installs with LVM autopart and make sure everything's okay that'd be
great. There's nowhere formal to report results - just yell on the list
if you find a bug that doesn't affect ext4 autopart.
I have a couple of updates.imgs available:
http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/updates-lvm.img against 18.19 (TC6)
http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/updates-lvm-1821.img against 18.21
(smoke12, possibly TC7)
The first is for anaconda 18.19 - what's in TC6. The second is for
anaconda 18.21 - what's in smoke12 and would possibly be in TC7. If more
anaconda builds show up, I'll provide updates.img for them following the
same name scheme.
All you really have to do to test is use these updates.imgs and do a
regular old autopart install. Two things should happen - the install
shouldn't explode (unless you hit some unrelated bug, of course) and you
should get LVs for your system partitions (not /boot) by default, just
as you did with F17 and earlier. If you hit a problem, do test *without*
the updates.img too before pulling the fire alarm, just in case it's not
anything to do with the LVM change.
You can also test autopart-within-custom-partitioning if you like. The
button in custom part that says something like 'create partitions
automatically'. It should also give you LVM-based partitioning with this
patch. (It does for me, I checked).
Thanks everyone!
Johann pointed out I forgot to include a link to the page with
instructions on how to use updates images. For anyone who doesn't know,
here it is:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Updates
sorry for leaving this out! The short version is you just add
'updates=(URL)' to the boot parameters for the installer, so at the boot
menu screen you hit 'Tab' to edit the boot parameters, add
'updates=http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/updates-lvm.img' or
'updates=http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/updates-lvm-1821.img' , and
then hit enter and proceed with install as normal. You do need
networking to be working 'out of the box' for this to work - so a wired
DHCP connection, basically.
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
http://www.happyassassin.net