Bug 39641

Summary:	No mention of LiveCD's EVMS capability
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext>
Component:	Handbook	Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) <swift>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	docs-team
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dirk Heinrichs 2004-01-28 00:42:57 UTC

I wonder why there is no mention of EVMS in the "Partitioning" chapter of the handbook/install guides. Gentoo currently is the only Linux distribution supporting installation into logical volumes, so I think this outstanding feature should be mentioned in the docs.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-28 00:56:58 UTC

Primarily due to lack of resources. I don't know who has the knowledge to write up a guide on EVMS (first guide, only when it's matured it'll be incorporated in the installation instructions). It would be really appreciated if anyone could write up something.

Comment 2 Dirk Heinrichs 2004-01-28 02:52:29 UTC

AFAIK, Daniel Robbins has the knowledge. He wrote two articles about EVMS for IBM developerworks. OTOH, as a starting point, I think it would be sufficient to mention that it is possible to use EVMS (and LVM?) from the LiveCD and give a pointer to the original EVMS documentation and to those articles.

Comment 3 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-19 10:48:22 UTC

The support for EVMS and LVM2 is mentioned in the upcoming installation instructions. I'll close down this bug when released.

Current draft: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/draft/handbook.xml

Comment 4 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-02 04:03:46 UTC

Released; EVMS is mentioned very briefly.