Howto setup a new hard disk?

[Matthew Gillen]

Neal Becker wrote:
> I want to add a new disk (external usb) to an existing FC3 system and use it
> to upgrade to FC4.  I like the autopartioning that anaconda does, setting
> up lvm.  I want to partition the drive in the same manner, but don't want
> to have to use lvm manually to do it.  My plan is to partition the drive
> for lvm, then copy files from the existing FC3 drive onto it, edit fstab to
> use the new drive, and then run the FC4 update.

So what's your question?  How to use anaconda outside of the install
process?  You're probably better off asking this question on a more
appropriate list:
linux-lvm at redhat.com
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm
read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/

--Matt