heldal
May 6th, 2012, 09:54 AM
Is there a way to start the installer so that it bypasses disk partitioning and mounting?
I'm about to convert a 10.10/32 system to 12.04/64. The system uses swraid. It's easy to manually boot from DVD, install/activate RAID, reformat system partitions (/, /boot, /usr, /var) and mount the entire hierarchy for installation under /mnt/target before I fire up the installer. But how do I make the installer skip these operations?
(I'm aware that the default install doesn't support boot from swraid so I have to chroot, install mdadm, then update initrd and grub manually before rebooting at the end of the installation)
I'm about to convert a 10.10/32 system to 12.04/64. The system uses swraid. It's easy to manually boot from DVD, install/activate RAID, reformat system partitions (/, /boot, /usr, /var) and mount the entire hierarchy for installation under /mnt/target before I fire up the installer. But how do I make the installer skip these operations?
(I'm aware that the default install doesn't support boot from swraid so I have to chroot, install mdadm, then update initrd and grub manually before rebooting at the end of the installation)