A few suggestions for FC6 Anaconda softraid setup

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Thu Jun 15 11:42:44 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 12:15 +0200, Hans Kristian Rosbach wrote:
> This is all based on FC2-5 experiences, have not tested current rawhide.
> I also don't have this in front of me so I don't quite remember
> the button names.
> 
> Follow the GUI install and choosing customize partition setup,
> now if you want to set up a softraid then you need to create
> softraid partitions. Click the raid (or something) button and
> choose the top (of the 3 possible) selection. Now anaconda has
> preselected all disks available on your system, this will usually
> be 2 disks in a softraid config but sometimes more.
> 
> Problem is anaconda only accepts 1 selection at a time, so I
> suggest that either it does not select any or it becomes possible
> to create the specified partition on several disks at once.
> (If option two, the next screen could just be the FS/mountpoint
>  setup screen)
> A similar problem appears when you want to create the actual
> raid and filesystem over your now created partitions.
> You click the raid button again and select the middle option (of 3).
> Anaconda has now preselected all softraid partitions and you need
> to remove selections so that you only end up with the ones
> appropriate for the mountpoint you now want to set up.
> 
> This all seems backward, deselecting instead of selecting.
> Also it gets pretty annoying when you for example have 4-15 disks
> and each has 5+ partitions. You spend an eternity just deselecting
> all those disks and partitions.
> (I also wouldnt mind if the partition selecting box would grow
>  a little when the screen area is big enough and a lot of partitions
>  are present.)
> 
> Hopefully you understand what I meant, I feel my description is
> a bit clumsy so I'll clarify if needed.
> 
> -HK
> 


Funny the you mention that... I was about it to BZ it.
(I just reinstall FC5 on my of my software RAID5 based machines)

Done.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195454
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195455

Gilboa




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