Hi all,

I've read the custom distro parts on the wiki and other sources, but need some help.

I would like to create a linode custom distro of SME Server (contribs.org)

It's an 'all in one' easy to use distro based on Centos (7.4=Centos4, 8.0Beta5=Centos5)

The main problem I encounter is the, by default, usage of LVM, whilst the wiki and other linode How-To's cover 1 partition, EXTx only.

I'm not the average tech, but would love to have a possibility to have a SME Server Linode, and I guess many of the thousands of users of SME Server too.

Anybody got some spare time or looking for a challenge?

Thanks anyway for reading and giving it some thought!

Regards,
-HF

Nobody? Please?

It's not going to be easy. SME default install not only uses LVM, but also RAID (If you have only one disk, you still get a RAID 1 array, but it has the second disk marked as 'out of service').

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/ Peter

Hi Peter,

I've installed SME Server with the 'nolvm' option and have identiefied the Raid status with mdstat.

I've copied (dd) over the boot partition to my Linode, I now need to dd over the data partition (2.5Gb)

So LVM can be overcome with 'nolvm' and Raid by using the mdstat info.

Want to give it a try?

Regards,
-HF