On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 14:06 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hey, folks. > > So the Big LVM Autopart Controversy has been kicked upstairs to FESCo: > > https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/964 > > If they say 'go with LVM', we'll have to do that. > > I have no idea what FESCo will decide, but we should cover our bets > either way, I think, so it will do no harm to do some testing of the LVM > autopart stuff over the weekend rather than wait till after FESCo makes > up its mind. > > So, for those doing validation testing, if you could run a few test > installs with LVM autopart and make sure everything's okay that'd be > great. There's nowhere formal to report results - just yell on the list > if you find a bug that doesn't affect ext4 autopart. > > I have a couple of updates.imgs available: > > http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/updates-lvm.img against 18.19 (TC6) > http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/updates-lvm-1821.img against 18.21 > (smoke12, possibly TC7) > > The first is for anaconda 18.19 - what's in TC6. The second is for > anaconda 18.21 - what's in smoke12 and would possibly be in TC7. If more > anaconda builds show up, I'll provide updates.img for them following the > same name scheme. > > All you really have to do to test is use these updates.imgs and do a > regular old autopart install. Two things should happen - the install > shouldn't explode (unless you hit some unrelated bug, of course) and you > should get LVs for your system partitions (not /boot) by default, just > as you did with F17 and earlier. If you hit a problem, do test *without* > the updates.img too before pulling the fire alarm, just in case it's not > anything to do with the LVM change. > > You can also test autopart-within-custom-partitioning if you like. The > button in custom part that says something like 'create partitions > automatically'. It should also give you LVM-based partitioning with this > patch. (It does for me, I checked). > > Thanks everyone! Johann pointed out I forgot to include a link to the page with instructions on how to use updates images. For anyone who doesn't know, here it is: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Updates sorry for leaving this out! The short version is you just add 'updates=(URL)' to the boot parameters for the installer, so at the boot menu screen you hit 'Tab' to edit the boot parameters, add 'updates=http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/updates-lvm.img' or 'updates=http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/updates-lvm-1821.img' , and then hit enter and proceed with install as normal. You do need networking to be working 'out of the box' for this to work - so a wired DHCP connection, basically. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
