partman-auto-raid

[None Atall]

All,

Searching for an opinion, would anyone on the list be able to give me smoe
feedback as to wether or not this request would warrant buying a support
contract?  This is a feature I need to get working very soon and I am in
search of an option.

-Joel

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:23 AM, None Atall <ubsereg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fredrik,
> Thank you very much for your prompt response!  Looking back at my email I
> believe I gave the wrong impression,  I am using a preseed file with disk
> recipe's, please take a look here:
>
> http://pastebin.com/f46b46a25
>
> Maybe I didnt do the second recipe correctly?   I tried this with hardy as
> you can see,  but the second part: d-i partman-auto-raid/recipe, doesnt
> appear to do anything at all, MD devices are never setup, but the raid
> slices are setup properly with the linux-raid-autodetect type.
>
> I have been using this document as a reference:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/installation-guide/amd64/preseed-contents.html
>
> to create my preseed file and disk recipe, it indicates that what I am
> doing should work, but I believe it has been copy/pasted directly from
> debian as indicated by the /dev/discs/disc0/disc syntax that is used in
> the example.
>
> -Joel
>
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Fredrik Jonsson <fredrik.jonsson at asci.se>wrote:
>
>>  Hello Joel!
>>
>>
>>
>> Ubuntu Server can be installed using Kickstart answer files due to the
>> fact that Ubuntu has its own implementation of Kickstart (
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KickstartCompatibility ). There is a
>> graphical tool to create kickstart answer files that is called
>> "system-config-kickstart". You simply install it as any other package (sudo
>> aptitude install system-config-kickstart –y) on your Ubuntu Desktop system
>> and with that tool you specify your disk partitioning for your target
>> installation.
>>
>>
>>
>> However i whould recommend you to take a deeper look on Seed answer files
>> instead of Kickstart answerfiles, due to the fact that you have more
>> configuration options and is more native in Ubuntu due to the fact that it
>> comes from Debian instead of Red Hat.
>>
>>
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>>
>>
>> Fredrik Jonsson
>>
>> Ubuntu Server Team Member
>>
>>
>>
>> *Från:* ubuntu-server-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:
>> ubuntu-server-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] *För *None Atall
>> *Skickat:* den 6 augusti 2008 15:43
>> *Till:* ubuntu-server at lists.ubuntu.com
>> *Ämne:* partman-auto-raid
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> First I would like to say that I am very happy with Ubuntu Server.  At my
>> current company I was able to get everything moved over to Ubuntu server and
>> we have been using ubuntu-server in production since EDGY!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Now onto the puzzle,
>>
>>
>>
>> Since edgy there has been some question about preseeding raid installs
>> that use MD instead of LVM.  I do apologize if this is an old cut on the
>> finger of the list, but my intention is merely to gather some facts, not to
>> pour lemon juice on it.
>>
>>
>>
>> My question, of course, is:
>>
>> Is partman-auto-raid planned to be implemented?
>>
>>
>>
>> I have downloaded the alternate-server cd as well as the reg server cd and
>> there is no partman-auto-raid package on either of them.  I did find a
>> reference here:
>>
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/partman-auto-raid
>>
>>
>>
>> That seems to indicate that the package should be there?  If I am
>> misreading this I am sorry.
>>
>>
>>
>> I also searched your mail archives and found 4 references to
>> partman-auto-raid, but I didn't see any action on the mentions.  This is a
>> package I really need, the small company I started at is now approaching 200
>> servers and we keep adding more,  I don't have the time to manually
>> partition the drives anymore, please help!
>>
>>
>>
>> is there a way I can copy the package into the pool/p/partman-auto-raid
>> and rebuild the Release files to get this to load when the installer starts?
>>  I am really willing to help any way I can because I think that adds value
>> to ubuntu-server in a large way,  before I started using ubuntu I used
>> kickstart on RedHat ES, and I think kickstart is the only reason I would
>> consider using Redhat.
>>
>>
>>
>> -Joel
>>
>
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