Re: live cd install to a LV

2014-07-14 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 13, 2014, at 9:43 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > When I try this with the Fedora 21 installer, it works the same. So maybe a > bug filed. While the current behavior makes sense if there's enough space to > do it. It doesn't make sense to fail this way if there's space in the VG but > not en

Re: live cd install to a LV

2014-07-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 13, 2014, at 9:09 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > Above the Volume Group pop-up is a Size field, that's for the LV, and you can > change that from 500mb to something sane. Desired Capacity. Not Size. So I just did a pvresize to give up 1GB to back myself out of this stuck state and it does

Re: live cd install to a LV

2014-07-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 13, 2014, at 7:52 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > > The LVM system has this to say: > > PV is 148.53GiB consumed 100% by a VG, extents are 32MiB. > pvdisplay and vgdisplay report free space 1805/56.41GiB. > The installer reports 1.71GiB available space. Somewhere between the tools > to which

Re: live cd install to a LV

2014-07-13 Thread Mike Wright
07/11/2014 01:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Jul 11, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to install a live CD to a logical volume any more? Yes. I've tried repeatedly and just when I think I've got it the installer refuses to proceed. What's the filename of th

Re: live cd install to a LV

2014-07-11 Thread Mike Wright
07/11/2014 01:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Another way is to use cloud images to bypass the installer entirely. Download a qcow2 image, do a yum update to bring it up to date, then make snapshots of that for each VM, point each VM to a different snapshot, and within each VM regenerate machine-i

Re: live cd install to a LV

2014-07-11 Thread Mike Wright
07/11/2014 01:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Jul 11, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to install a live CD to a logical volume any more? Yes. I've tried repeatedly and just when I think I've got it the installer refuses to proceed. What's the filename of th

Re: live cd install to a LV

2014-07-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 11, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to install a live CD to a logical volume any more? Yes. > I've tried repeatedly and just when I think I've got it the installer > refuses to proceed. What's the filename of the ISO you're using? What are the steps

Re: Live CD install

2011-03-06 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 20:46 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 18:27:03 -0600, > m...@miketc.net wrote: > > When you boot up a live cd and go to "install to hard drive", does it do > > it's own partitioning, or do you have the option of customizing it > > yourself? > > Ther

Re: Live CD install

2011-03-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 23:15:22 -0800, suvayu ali wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > And you probably can't break it up into multiple > > partitions as well. > > Do you mean not being able to have separate / and /home partitions? If > so, I think that is incor

Re: Live CD install

2011-03-05 Thread mutter
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 06:27:03PM -0600, m...@miketc.net wrote: > When you boot up a live cd and go to "install to hard drive", does it do > it's own partitioning, or do you have the option of customizing it > yourself? It depends which option you choose during your system installation. > > Than

Re: Live CD install

2011-03-05 Thread suvayu ali
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > And you probably can't break it up into multiple > partitions as well. Do you mean not being able to have separate / and /home partitions? If so, I think that is incorrect. I have F13 XFCE and F14 XFCE on my workstation and ThinkPad with se

Re: Live CD install

2011-03-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 18:27:03 -0600, m...@miketc.net wrote: > When you boot up a live cd and go to "install to hard drive", does it do > it's own partitioning, or do you have the option of customizing it > yourself? There are some limits. Because of the trick used to quickly install the file

Re: Live CD install

2011-03-05 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:27 AM, wrote: > When  you boot up a live cd and go to "install to hard drive", does it do > it's own partitioning, or do you have the option of customizing it > yourself? Can customise it yourself, or let it automatically do it. -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fe