David Moylan on Saturday 16 August 2003 16:39 wrote:

> has anyone done a fresh install on a machine with slack9 and LVM?
> i would like to do an install from scratch totally using LVM.
>
> is there enough/any support on the install disk to enable LVM or
> should i begin rolling my own install images?

I thought of doing the same when I acquired 9.0, but all the
literature, HOWTOs, and such are all for setting up LVM AFTER a
typical install, that is, standard Primary or Logical partitioning.

From what little checking I've done, setting up LVM on a fresh install
is not possible with Slackware's standard install CD, which installs
a minimal Linux system on a RAM disk -- only what is needed to
partition, install and config a STANDARD Linux system. A lot of stuff
is missing, of course. The main things missing are all the specific
LVM commands to set it up and configure. If one were to create a
custom install disk, that included those LVM specific commands, along
with the standard Slackware archives, then you could set up LVM from
a scratch install, since LVM support is already included in the
bare.i kernel.

Perhaps, instead of a custom install disk, you could try to exact from
the archives just those LVM commands needed and install them on the
RAM disk. I haven't checked into this. Just a thought.

When you consider all the work involved to do this, it might be more
time effective to just do a standard install, and THEN set up LVM,
unless your intention is to create your own default LVM Linux distro.
;-)

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