CentOS - Nov 2015 - C7: How to configure raid at install time

On Thu, November 19, 2015 8:15 am, m.roth at 5-cent.us
wrote:
> Fred Smith wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 09:49:43PM -0700, Devin Reade wrote:
>>> --On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 11:07:12 PM -0500 Fred Smith
>>> <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> >But it isn't at all obvious how one would do a new RAID1
setup in
>>> >Anaconda
>>>
>>> Don't feel bad.  The abortion that is the RHEL/CentOS 7
graphical
>>> install interface is far too dumbed-down to be easily usable by
anyone
>>> that understands what is going on under the covers.  Oh, the irony.
> <snip>
> Right, hit <send>, then thought of one more annoyance: the stupid
> graphical custom partition option will NOT do what you tell it: I want
> /boot first, then swap, *then* /, but if you don't do it the way I
> mentioned in my last post - <alt><f2> and parted, it renumbers
and
> reassigns your partitions Magically <fairy dust/>, and puts / after
/boot,
> and before swap. For no particular reason, and with no explanation.
>
Indeed, make something that even idiot can use, and only idiot will [be
happy to] use it.

My C7 boxes (workstations, no C7 servers, please) are all installed using
kickstart, and drives are partitioned exactly as I described in kickstart
file. There is still something we can happily use ;-)

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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On 11/19/2015 06:56 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> My C7 boxes (workstations, no C7 servers, please) are all installed using
> kickstart, and drives are partitioned exactly as I described in kickstart
> file. There is still something we can happily use;-)
Perhaps by luck.  Anaconda will definitely reorder partitions if you 
describe them with the "part" command in kickstart.  The *only* way to
get predictable partition layouts is to manually partition.

On Fri, November 20, 2015 10:49 am, Gordon Messmer
wrote:
> On 11/19/2015 06:56 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>> My C7 boxes (workstations, no C7 servers, please) are all installed
>> using
>> kickstart, and drives are partitioned exactly as I described in
>> kickstart
>> file. There is still something we can happily use;-)
>
> Perhaps by luck.  Anaconda will definitely reorder partitions if you
> describe them with the "part" command in kickstart.  The *only*
way to
> get predictable partition layouts is to manually partition.
And indeed it did. Not to the extent of going ultimately against my
scheme. OK, CentOS (7) just fell yet one more notch down in my opinion.
Thanks for correcting me.

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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