From 75a4a592e5ccda30715f93563d741b83e0dcf39e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick J Volkerding Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:37:00 +0000 Subject: Slackware 13.37 Mon Apr 25 13:37:00 UTC 2011 Slackware 13.37 x86_64 stable is released! Thanks to everyone who pitched in on this release: the Slackware team, the folks producing upstream code, and linuxquestions.org for providing a great forum for collaboration and testing. The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. Please consider supporting the Slackware project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com. We're taking pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription. As always, thanks to the Slackware community for testing, suggestions, and feedback. :-) Have fun! --- README_LVM.TXT | 29 ++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) (limited to 'README_LVM.TXT') diff --git a/README_LVM.TXT b/README_LVM.TXT index 94cd5ad8a..2318e6965 100644 --- a/README_LVM.TXT +++ b/README_LVM.TXT @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ installation to Logical Volumes. In Slackware, the installer has never supported this, but the gurus usually would find a way to create logical volumes and install or migrate their Slackware onto those. Having your Slackware installed fully on LVM was near impossible until Slackware 12.0. -Slackware 13.1 has improved support for LVM built into the installer. +Slackware 13.37 has improved support for LVM built into the installer. Preparing Logical Volumes (LV) @@ -40,14 +40,14 @@ LV's called 'root' and 'home'. The first is going to contain the root partition After booting your computer from the Slackware CD/DVD/USB, and logging in as root, you run the following sequence of commands to create the Physical -Volume (PV), the Volume Group (VG) within that PV and two LV's of size 5GB +Volume (PV), the Volume Group (VG) within that PV and two LV's of size 6GB (root) and 3GB (home) inside the VG: # pvcreate /dev/sda1 # vgcreate myvg /dev/sda1 - # lvcreate -L 5G -n root myvg + # lvcreate -L 6G -n root myvg # lvcreate -L 3G -n home myvg @@ -60,13 +60,8 @@ Volume (PV), the Volume Group (VG) within that PV and two LV's of size 5GB # lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n home myvg ======================================================================== - Next, we create the device nodes needed before activating the volumes, and -finally we activate the volumes (the last command is not really needed because -'setup' will run it anyway): - - # vgscan --mknodes - - # vgchange -ay + The device nodes for the logical volumes are created, and the volumes +will be activated automatically when running lvcreate. This is all we need to do before running 'setup'. @@ -110,9 +105,9 @@ We are going to 'chroot' into our fresh installation: Next, while we are in the chroot, create the initrd with LVM support - in the example command line I assume that the root filesystem is 'ext3', we used the LV '/dev/myvg/root' as the root device, and are running the -Slackware 13.1 default SMP kernel '2.6.33.4-smp': +Slackware 13.37 default SMP kernel '2.6.37.6-smp': - # mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.33.4-smp -m ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/myvg/root -L + # mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.37.6-smp -m ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/myvg/root -L The resulting initrd image will be written to the file '/boot/initrd.gz' by default. We still need to tell lilo about this initrd, so open the @@ -124,7 +119,7 @@ filename added by 'liloconfig' is '/boot/vmlinuz' which is a symbolic link to the huge SMP kernel. Remember that we need a 'generic' kernel with the initrd. The end result should look somewhat like this: - image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-smp-2.6.33.4-smp + image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-smp-2.6.37.6-smp initrd = /boot/initrd.gz root = /dev/myvg/root label = linux @@ -139,9 +134,9 @@ but it is safe to ignore these. ===================================================================== An alternative method of creating the commandline for mkinitrd is - to use the '/usr/share/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh' script that is - part of the mkinitrd package. This script will analyze your Slackware - installation and show you a useable 'mkinitrd' commandline: + to use the '/usr/share/mkinitrd/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh' script + which is part of the mkinitrd package. This script will analyze your + Slackware installation and show you a useable 'mkinitrd' commandline: # /usr/share/mkinitrd/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh -r @@ -188,7 +183,7 @@ This is enough to get it recognized by the setup program. Have fun! ======================================================== Author: - Eric Hameleers 25-jul-2009 + Eric Hameleers 08-apr-2011 Wiki URLs: http://www.slackware.com/~alien/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:setup Documentation: -- cgit v1.2.3