Plans for anaconda LVM/RAID support

[Gerry Reno]

On 10/25/2012 03:04 PM, John Reiser wrote:
> On 10/25/2012 09:55 AM, Ken Dreyer wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Matthew Miller
>    [snip]
>>> It is often useful in enterprise settings to do non-kickstart installs while
>>> prototyping. *And*, people running Fedora in those settings probably *are*
>>> prototyping. So, this seems like an important use case to me.
>> I agree with this. It's also quite a simplification to say that
>> kickstart only involves writing a single text file :)
> I see a couple other things here.  Anaconda doesn't inter-operate well.
> The interactive graphical part has no provision for writing "the kickstart
> file so far", so that is cumbersome to adapt: I need multiple passes.
> (How do I invoke anaconda with a partial kickstart file, use interactive
> features, then write the revised kickstart state, and stop?
> There should be a syntax-and-semantics-aware "kickstart editor".)
> And, if what I want is guided generation of a kickstart file,
> then that should be an ordinary app (with root privileges to
> discover any existing configuration, but inhibiting all partition creating
> and formatting), not a stand-alone installer.
>
> Then anaconda balks at taking over a disk configuration that I create
> using other tools.  Namely, anaconda won't format an unformatted
> existing partition,  So, I must use another pass to discover Fedora's
> "default" arguments to mkfs before performing the mkfs somewhere else.
>
>
> What I use now is the latest gparted LiveCD ( http://gparted.org/ ;
> recently supports LVM!) to set the partitioning, and to create and
> format file systems with labels.  Then I run anaconda only to assign
> those existing partitions to mount points.
>

Just my 2c here.

I gave up on anaconda a long time ago.

I only care that anaconda will use an existing layout that I create using other tools.

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