Questions regarding new install

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Sat Apr 16 21:16:52 EDT 2005


FC3 installs LVM as default now.

JJ Neff wrote:

>I am supposed to pick up a friend's "old" machine so I'll have a "new" machine
>to be a game machine at the house (picking up a 6800 nvidia hopefully to run
>Doom3!)
>
>I have spent a few hours researching LVM2 on Linux distros.  I have LVM2
>running and contains / and /boot on a gentoo server, but it requires a seperate
>IDE drive that I have a partial rescue install on to perform rescue ops.
>
>What distros allow LVM on install?  I understand Mandrake and Suse allow LVM in
>install but does FC3?  I want to give FC3 a try as I want to work on cert and
>probably need to get to know this distro.  I have Mandrake on CD and I also
>have Gentoo.  Not sure which to stick with.  I know this is an awful question
>to ask here but my goal is to play games and not run as a server per se.
>
>I want to have everthing except / and /boot on LVM and would prefer to not have
>to do the min install and then move every partition to LVM after install trick.
>
>I have grown tired of the hours it takes to upgrade or install anything on
>gentoo.  I miss my Debian apt-get being so darn fast and Mandrake urpmi --auto
>is very fast as well.  I love the gentoo distro but hate taking SO LONG to
>install everything!  I can't make up my mind between Debian/FC3/Mandrake.  Oh
>well maybe I'll start an install from each distro.
>
>JJN
>
>
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