[LUNI] Re: Installing Debian on brand new dell dimension 9200

[Fred Yankowski]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:48:36AM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> Unfortunately Ubuntu seems
> to have a hard time with setting up the Raid + LVM.  Doing the manual
> config takes a long time.  It seems to hang throughout the process of
> definign the LVGs.

I recently installed Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" on an older Dell server
(630?) and there was a point early in the installation procedure where
it seemed to hang.  I walked away and left it and sometime within a
half hour or so it managed to proceed.  The long delay happened at a
time when the installer could have been looking to see how the disks
are partitioned.  I wasn't installing LVM or RAID at the outset but I
have some existing LVM LVs on the disks involved.  I suspect that the
installer was particularly confused by a removable MO disk unit that
I've got on my SCSI chain.

-- 
Fred Yankowski


P.S.  The PATA disk driver in Ubuntu 6.* names all the drives, SCSI
and IDE, with names like /dev/sd*.  Now THAT was a head-scratcher for
a while -- "what happened to my IDE drives, and what are all these
extra SCSI drives?".