Install F18 using LVM on RAID

[Mateusz Marzantowicz]

On 06.06.2013 14:35, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
> On 06/06/2013 05:34 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
>> On 06.06.2013 10:30, Gerhard Gappmeier wrote:
>>> Unfortunately the installer does not allow to create this kind of partition 
>>> layout. With F17 this was possible.
>> Yes, it was possible in F17. Now it isn't :) It's kind of improvement in
>> installer.
>>
>>> 2.) Installing F17 and upgrade using fedup. This fails. Seems like fedup is 
>>> not able to handle this layout.
>> fedup is not touching anything in partition layout. (someone on devel@
>> group stated this recently) fedup downloads packages, new kernel and
>> "installation" initrd. Then it uses yum/rpm do upgrade OS. So it should
>> be possible to upgrade your machine.
>>
>>> 3.) Kickstart: It looks like this is most likely the way to get it working. 
>>> But I was not able to write a working kickstart script. The online doc is not 
>>> enough for that. I found same kickstart examples using Google, but these 
>>> didn't work either.
>> This is the only chance to do what you want. I also wait with
>> upgrade/reinstall on some of my boxes because I can't play with
>> kickstart to learn how it works. I have no spare box to destroy for one
>> day. You can see content of kickstart-ks.cfg in /root directory of your
>> Fedora 17 install and use it for new installation.
> It should be called as 'anaconda-ks.cfg' in your '/root/' directory.
>
>
Sorry, my fault.


Mateusz Marzantowicz