From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Philip Hands Subject: Re: auto-installing debian on xen on debian withdebian-installer preseeding Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:19:00 +0100 Message-ID: <42C2ADD4.6020307@hands.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1006285492==" Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Mime-version: 1.0 Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: James Harper Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --===============1006285492== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig6B177B70C72A24F8903A7A62" This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig6B177B70C72A24F8903A7A62 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit James Harper wrote: > Does the debian installer really not support lvm? It does for interactive installs, but the automated partitioner (partman-auto) doesn't unless partman-auto-lvm is also installed, and that's not the case in the sarge debian-installer release version. It's possibly the case for the latest development branch, but getting this auto installation stuff working is fiddly enough without building it on moving foundations. > I'm sure I've installed debian with root on software raid + lvm before... by hand, it's not a problem. > I'd use debootstrap in preference to the debian installer, but that's > probably just my preference, the installer might make the final config a > bit easier. The main reasons for doing it this way are: because someone suggested it, and it seemed a suitably sick idea ;-) because it means that one can develop an auto installer preseed recipe for normal machines, and then use that to install a xen domain, or vice versa. it might end up being useful as a test environment for debian-installer it decouples the versions of software needed on dom0 and the target new domain. One can imagine a machine installed with xen now being left on a particular reliable set of software, but installing the latest bleeding edge stuff into a new domain --- doing this without needing to upgrade deboottrap in dom0 might be useful at some point. I'm not certain that any of these are of real interest to normal Xen users, but adding something to the end of the xen0 auto installer, that debootstraps Debian or even installs RedHat, NetBSD etc, on a bunch of new subdomains, would not be too hard, and could well be quite useful. Cheers, Phil. --------------enig6B177B70C72A24F8903A7A62 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCwq3UYgOKS92bmRARAlnaAJ4vRL9Xs40fhd2hWh738xL2YvS5BQCfQaVZ 1mDD67yO3MqTuidakGF12IU= =0qcT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6B177B70C72A24F8903A7A62-- --===============1006285492== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel --===============1006285492==--