Re: Install to or Recover RAID Array Subvolume Root?

["Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com>]

On 2016-04-18 16:34, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> On 18 April 2016 at 11:52, Austin S. Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2016-04-18 11:39, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn
>>> <ahferroin7@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Like I said in one of my earlier e-mails though, these kind of limitations
>> are part of why I switched to Gentoo, there's no GUI installer, but you can
>> put the system together however the hell you want (which is especially nice
>> with BTRFS, because none of the installers out there will let you use BTRFS
>> on top of LVM, which is useful for things like BTRFS raid1 on top of
>> DM-RAID0).
>
> Limitations?  ;-)  Debian has a variety of bootstrapping methods,
> though I forget if they're more analogous to starting a Gentoo
> installation from stage2 or stage3...I haven't used Gentoo since 2002.
> Please consult the following doc for one of the methods:
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apds03.html.en
The closest I've ever seen for Debian to a Gentoo stage3 installation 
(the developers discourage usage of stage2 installs these days unless 
you're bootstrapping _everything_ yourself) is debbootstrap, and I could 
never get that to work reliably.

FWIW, the installer wasn't the only reason I switched to Gentoo, the two 
bigger ones for me were wanting newer software versions and needing 
different sets of features enabled on packages than the default builds, 
I ended up switching at the point that I was building more locally than 
I was installing from the repositories.