Hello,
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:30:39PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 02:00:16PM +0000, Andy Bennett
wrote:
> Assumptions:
> + Most customers will want 1 Linux partition and 1 swap partition.
[...]
I think you are right that it will be best to just do
one partition
per block device. This will still leave it possible to resize
easily and it will make all the installers happy.
To make this transition less painful I have added a "disks" command
to the Xen Shell. As described here:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/redmine/issues/51
it will enable you to divide your allocated disk space between as
many disk devices as you like.
It will also allow you to reset your exported disks to conform to
the standard described above, without you having to ask support to
do it for you.
You don't need to do that until/unless you want to reinstall your
VPS of course, but most of you will need to do it if you do want to
use one of the installers.
I've also added the CentOS 5.x installer, so now the available
installers are:
Debian
- lenny (5.x)
- squeeze (6.x)
Ubuntu
- Lucid (10.04.x LTS)
Centos
- 5.x
Gentoo doesn't have an installer as such, but installing Gentoo from
an existing Linux installation is a fairly normal way to do it, do
that can be done from the rescue environment:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap5
Now that these installers are available we aren't going to be doing
any reimaging for customers anymore, as long as you're wanting a
distribution that actually has an installer. Supported distributions
that don't currently have an installer:
- Debian sid
- Ubuntu Maverick (10.10)
They will be added at a later date.
Naturally if you have any problems using any of this please do open
a support ticket.
Cheers,
Andy
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