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| Michael Kofler (michael-kofler) wrote Partman is messed | #4 |
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(Get the code!)
with Ubuntu 8.04.01 server CD:
I agree with jhansonxi that the partman module of the alternate installer is almost useless. I tried for two days to do a rather simple setup: two identical disks, RAID 1 for sda1 / sdb1, LVM on top of this containing only one root partition.
I finally succeed (ignoring all kind of resync/reboot warnings when trying to setup LVM). LILO was able to load and start the kernel, which froze after 'freeing initrd memory' :-( BTW: LILO loads the kernel + initrd really slow, takes about 10 sec. on rather high-end hardware.
For server use, I don't need a funky graphical installer, but the text-mode installer should work in a more logical way and must cope with non-standard situations (i.e. LVM on top of RAID, several RAID partitions etc.). Numerous bugs reported here show that Ubuntu fails in this respect. Red Hat/Fedora show how this can be done.