Peter, I might give it a try since I have clean HDs. However, I was of the understanding that /boot could not reside on a logical volume (ref. fedora 9 install notes on fedora.redhat.com. From your comments it appears that /boot can reside on a logical volume without difficulty. Thanks to all others who responded also. Note that manually I could not delete the Logical Volume. Did not try to change it. Bob. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: edik077@xxxxxxxxx > > Bob, choose manual partioning with disk druid. Check the box: "Allow > me to review and make changes" or something like that. The you'll be > able to see a single VolumeGroup that includes the Logical Volumes. > Delete, first the Logical Volumes then the VolumeGroup. After that, > create at minimum the following partitions: /boot, /, /home, and a > swap partition. It depends what you wanna use the box for. If it is a > desktop the previous scheme will work if it is a server use /boot, /, > /tmp, /var /usr and a swap partitions. > > Personally I use LVM on my boxes on a couple of desktops like this scheme: > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > The advantage with this scheme is that I can easily resize my Logical > Volumes when I need it without any disturbance and in an easy way. > Think twice before that advantages/disadvantages of LVM before going > for a classic partiton style. I even use LVM on an itranet I use on my > job for almost five years and it works beautiful. Again, it depends > what are you gonna use the box for. Regards > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Peter Langfelder > <peter.langfelder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Bob Hartung <rwhart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> How do I install F9 without LVM? Even when selecting custom > >> install/partitioning, I cannot delete the LVM volume. > >> > > > > Hmm.. I installed F9 on my desktop using the graphical installer > > (anaconda) without LVM without any trouble. Unfortunately it was so > > simple I don't remember the details anymore. Perhaps you don't want to > > delete the volume but rather change its type? > > > > HTH, > > > > Peter > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > -- > Ed Landaveri > GNU/Linux User 433512 > http://counter.li.org > "Free as in Freedom" > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
