Short info about use of LVM
By te0x

1) boot from CDROM
2) partition you disk(s), to keep it simple use a partition for root and boot out of lvm
3) activate lvm
run vgscan
use pvcreate, pvcreate /dev/hda3
use vgcreate, vgcreate vg00 /dev/hda3
use lvcreate, lvcreate -L400 -nusr vg00
4) format your partitions, for instance mkreiserfs /dev/vg00/usr and mkswap /dev/hda1
5) mount your new partition(s) under /voltalinux (mount /dev/hda2 /voltalinux)
first mount root then make new directories for the LVM (mkdir /voltalinux/usr)
then mount then (mount /dev/vg00/usr/ /voltalinux/usr)
6) mount your CDROM device under /cdrom (mount /dev/hdc /cdrom)
7) cd to /voltalinux and tar xvzfp /cdrom/voltalinux/voltalinux_X_base.tar.gz add also voltalinux_X_devel.tar.gz (and run /cdrom/doinst_devel.sh after) to develope you packages and voltalinux_X_net.tar.gz for additional network tools.
8) if you need it, you can choose a right kernel for you from /cdrom/kernes/ and put it, with the unzipped System.map, to /boot (the default is bare.i, named vmlinuz)
9) chroot . /bin/bash
10) mount -t proc /proc
11) vgscan
12) edit /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf to suit your setup (there are 2 files to be modified in /etc/)
13) run lilo -v
14) reboot

after reboot and login with empy password set a root password with
# passwd
then configure many other things like network, time, services, etc.

/etc/fstab sample:
/dev/hda1        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/hda2        /                reiserfs    defaults         1   1
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       iso9660     noauto,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0

/etc/lilo.conf sample:
# LILO configuration file
#
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/hda
prompt
default=voltalinux
timeout = 100
vga = normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda2
label = voltalinux
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Author: Matteo Garofano
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