Am 21.04.2012 21:15, schrieb Mike Wright:
On 04/21/2012 12:06 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> Am 21.04.2012 21:02, schrieb Mike Wright:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I downloaded the f16 install DVD (6.5 hours) and have been trying to install it
to an lvm partition that is part of
>> a Xen box. Two days later I'm asking for help.
>>
>> Hope this doesn't sound like a rant but I'm very frustrated. This is a
description of what I've been going through
>> with a request for help at the very basic level of "Set Up your
Drives".
>>
>> I can't use livecd to install because that method won't install into a
virtual environment and shutting down every
>> other vm just so I can boot "bare metal" takes down my entire
operation: no dns, no mail, no web, no firewall, no
>> databases. Nulla. Nada. Squatalucci. Out of business while a livecd install
takes place. I'm not the only user
>> here. That means I take down every other business, too.
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> i stopped read here
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> if ANYTHING in a virtual machine brings the host down then
> you have a much bigger problem as this guest - this has to
> be impossible in a working virtualization!
Thanks for your response, Reindl.
It is not a vm taking down the host. It is I who must shutdown every vm in order to boot
onto "bare metal" without
a hypervisor. That is required because livecd technology will not install into a virtual
machine. The only way I
know to install into a vm is to use actual install media.
i have not tried but how should the "live cd technology" even know
that it runs in a VM? however, live-cd-to-disk in my opinion is
generally unuseable due the lack of partitioning
as said in my following post: boot with "noefi" or/and "nogpt"
i needed this even with F15 on bare metal to get a working setup
with /boot on linux RAID1 and two RAID10 for system / data
which is definitly not possible in the default anaconda >= F15
while on F14 it was a normal thing like eat and drink
a really godd example that "improvements" in Fedora often are
horrible steps backwards and only improbements for
"click, click, OK" instalaltions