duel booting with 2x *nix

Colin Watson cjwatson at canonical.com
Fri Oct 29 12:48:55 UTC 2004


On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:52:11PM -0500, Martin Maney wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 07:39:39PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 01:51:28AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
> > > Linux can run in BSD disk slices, but I'm not sure partman (the
> > > installer's partitioner in Ubuntu) can create them,
> > 
> > I think it can in expert mode.
> 
> Since it's too late to try it out tonight, let me ask a vaguely related
> question.  Is there any way to install with LVM using a RAID1 mirror as
> its physical volume, or is that still going to take the old "install
> here, setup and move over to there later" shuffle?  It's not that I'm
> unfamiliar with that dance, but I wouldn't be unhappy if I never needed
> to do it again.  ;-)

The very latest version of partman-lvm in Debian can do this, I believe,
so it should be possible in Hoary soon.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]




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