f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Oct 16 18:57:23 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 13:22 -0500, David Lehman wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 15:29 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote:
> > Hi, I have download the last Fedora-18-Beta-TC4 to do some tests
> > http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-Beta-TC4/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-Beta-TC4-x86_64-netinst.iso
> > 
> > How to install it on a empty disk and use LVM (or create a software
> > RaID)?
> > 
> > From the new disk manager anaconda panel I did not understand how to
> > create a new LVM partition and root and swap volume.
> > 
> 
> 1. Click the + button near the bottom of the screen.
> 2. Enter '/' for mountpoint and whatever size you want.
> 3. Hit Confirm or Add or whatever the dialog button is.
> 4. Select the new mountpoint on the left side of the
>    screen.
> 5. Click the + on the right side of the screen to edit
>    the device options.
> 6. Select your desired device type from the available
>    options, which will include LVM.

Note that these instructions cover *what to do when you get into custom
partitioning mode*. My other mail explained how to get into custom
partitioning.
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