From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <3CAFCF97.A199C7B2@vtc.edu.hk> From: Nick Urbanik MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Red Hat upgrade over existing LVM References: <000601c1ddb2$412f7170$0201a8c0@fosi> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sat Apr 6 22:47:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Steve Wray wrote: > If you are not too deeply committed to redhat as such, > there is always mandrake; that supports LVM > at install or upgrade time. > > If you install mandrake on top of your existing > redhat/LVM system, the mandrake installer will > see the existing volume groups and allow you to > allocate them to mount points etc; thereby not > *necessarily* losing data. How is the Mandrake installation CD as a rescue disk? Does it support RAID 1 and 5, reiserfs, ext3 as well as LVM? (in terms of being able to mount it all and read it). This could be the great rescue disk we need! -- Nick Urbanik RHCE nicku@vtc.edu.hk Dept. of Information & Communications Technology Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi) Tel: (852) 2436 8576, (852) 2436 8579 Fax: (852) 2436 8526 PGP: 53 B6 6D 73 52 EE 1F EE EC F8 21 98 45 1C 23 7B ID: 7529555D GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24