1clue
October 1st, 2009, 02:15 AM
Hi,
I have this hardware:
Intel i7 920
6g RAM
Asus P6T motherboard. (SATA/"hardware" RAID)
4x WD 750G 10000 rpm drives.
It is configured as RAID + LVM2, it boots and works fine, mostly. Here are the partitions:
/dev/md1: /boot 128M, RAID1 * 4
/dev/sd*2: swap 6G
/dev/md3: / 25G, Gentoo
/dev/md5: / 25G, empty for Ubuntu
/dev/md6: LVM2.
I want to put Ubuntu on md5. I would like to set up LV's to handle a few other partitions, and share things like /home and /opt and /tmp.
What I'm worried about is trashing my existing disks.
I couldn't figure out how to make Ubuntu work like this. It wants to go straight into formatting the disk and doesn't recognize the RAID or LVM.
I downloaded Kubuntu's alternate CD, and I'm staring at it now. It recognizes the LV's and everything, but it wants to scribble on my partition table. I don't want it to.
Has anyone else done this? I have a huge amount of time invested in the Gentoo installation. Those of you who have used it know exactly what I mean.
What I would like to have is Ubuntu, not Kubuntu. I will live with KDE if I have to, to get the job done. If I go that route, I'll probably configure gnome on it anyway, it'll just be a bit dirtier.
I have this hardware:
Intel i7 920
6g RAM
Asus P6T motherboard. (SATA/"hardware" RAID)
4x WD 750G 10000 rpm drives.
It is configured as RAID + LVM2, it boots and works fine, mostly. Here are the partitions:
/dev/md1: /boot 128M, RAID1 * 4
/dev/sd*2: swap 6G
/dev/md3: / 25G, Gentoo
/dev/md5: / 25G, empty for Ubuntu
/dev/md6: LVM2.
I want to put Ubuntu on md5. I would like to set up LV's to handle a few other partitions, and share things like /home and /opt and /tmp.
What I'm worried about is trashing my existing disks.
I couldn't figure out how to make Ubuntu work like this. It wants to go straight into formatting the disk and doesn't recognize the RAID or LVM.
I downloaded Kubuntu's alternate CD, and I'm staring at it now. It recognizes the LV's and everything, but it wants to scribble on my partition table. I don't want it to.
Has anyone else done this? I have a huge amount of time invested in the Gentoo installation. Those of you who have used it know exactly what I mean.
What I would like to have is Ubuntu, not Kubuntu. I will live with KDE if I have to, to get the job done. If I go that route, I'll probably configure gnome on it anyway, it'll just be a bit dirtier.