On Thu, November 19, 2015 8:15 am, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Fred Smith wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 09:49:43PM -0700, Devin Reade wrote: >>> --On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 11:07:12 PM -0500 Fred Smith >>> <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: >>> >>> >But it isn't at all obvious how one would do a new RAID1 setup in >>> >Anaconda >>> >>> Don't feel bad. The abortion that is the RHEL/CentOS 7 graphical >>> install interface is far too dumbed-down to be easily usable by anyone >>> that understands what is going on under the covers. Oh, the irony. > <snip> > Right, hit <send>, then thought of one more annoyance: the stupid > graphical custom partition option will NOT do what you tell it: I want > /boot first, then swap, *then* /, but if you don't do it the way I > mentioned in my last post - <alt><f2> and parted, it renumbers and > reassigns your partitions Magically <fairy dust/>, and puts / after /boot, > and before swap. For no particular reason, and with no explanation. > Indeed, make something that even idiot can use, and only idiot will [be happy to] use it. My C7 boxes (workstations, no C7 servers, please) are all installed using kickstart, and drives are partitioned exactly as I described in kickstart file. There is still something we can happily use ;-) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++