On Friday 20 May 2005 08:44 am, radoeka wrote: <SNIP>
It's during initial installation, so nothing is there it's all virtual.I have to devices hda and hdc. I assign both (the whole disk for the moment) to the raid. This works fine. After that I start to create the lvm. This pops up a window telling that there are no devices left for the lvm. It does not "see" the /dev/md0 device :( Should lvm see the /dev/md0 device?
-- Richard
Your going to need to create more partitions. Your boot partition and swap will not be LVM. Create three partitions on each drive. The suggested scheme will give you an idea as to what size to make the swap partition, probably 1G. I used 100M for my /boot device and it is plenty. You will end up with 3 RAID devices. make one formated for swap, one /boot and formated (reiser or ext3), and a third device that is not formated or mounted anywhere. If your RAID device is formated and/or given a mount point, it will not show up in LVM. It's hard to tell from here, but I'm guessing your RAID device is listed as mounting at /. I think this is the default. Change this to be blank. I just installed 9.3 to a system with three disks and software RAID 5. I made three partitions on each disk. I did this to end up with three large equal sized partitions. hda1 and hdb1 = /dev/mdo = /boot hdc1 and hda2 = /dev/md1 = swap hdb1 and hdc2 = /dev/md2 = swap hda3 and hdb3 and hdc3 = /dev/md3 = LVM = / (RAID 5) HTH, -- Louis Richards