[ale] Headless, Consoleless, DVDless, NetInstall? was: Fedora NetInstall via USB Drive

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 16:36:53 EDT 2009


On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com> wrote:

> I guess I could have focused the discussion better. Instead of saying
> I loosely understand kickstart, I should have asked if it is possible
> to remotely setup LVM on a RHEL4 box that you have no physical access
> to. That is really what is missing for me.
>
> I look forward to studying those 2 redhat.com kickstart links this weekend.
>
>

Yes. LVM can be setup remotely as long as there are some pre-conditions met:

must have a stand-alone / with /bin, /sbin, /etc. Other stuff can be
on a different physical partition.

NOTE: any blank drive partition can be added to an existing lvm setup
but / can't with out going into runlevel 1 (so no network). Umm.
scratch that. I'm not sure that an existing partition can be converted
safely with data intact. It seems like it could be as all the writes
are metadata in drive label areas but...

Hmmm. I don't know if a micro-distro like DSL supports LVM or not. If
it does, you can plop that into /boot, set grub for a one-time boot to
DSL, set up LVM and retinker _ALL_ of the /etc files that refer to
pre-LVM drive setup, sync disks, reboot and check your religious
status and/or your underwear stain status.

That said, if you need to do LVM for /usr/local, /opt or /home, only
/home would be a problem if it has data on it.

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James P. Kinney III


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