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mfelker

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Registered: 2007-06-24

Posts: 1

Want to install Arch on existing PV, VG, LV without formating everythi

Hi :

     My first  post on this forum!

      I have an exiting  PV (just one on drive 0 ) an exiting LG (Linux) and  three exiting LV (Linux-Ubuntu, linux-Fedora and Linux-Sabayon) my boot partitions  are exiting primary partitions on the drive 1.  I want to replace Sabay9on Linux with Arch Linux on Sabayons exiting LV (will rename to Linux-Arch).  It doesn't' look to me that I can do this without formatting and reconstructing the entire LVM system.  I can and have made images of all three OS's so technically I might be able to do it but it seems chancy at best to me.  Anyway I can install Arch over the exiting Sabayon LV ?  My only other choice is to make a virtual machine with Arch but of course it isn't exactly the same.

TIA

Marty Felker 

whitethorn

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Registered: 2010-05-02

Posts: 153

Re: Want to install Arch on existing PV, VG, LV without formating everythi

I don't quite see what's the problem.  I'm pretty sure the arch installer can read lvms, and it should be possible to activate your current one and just format the sabayon LV and install arch onto it. I guess another possibility is to follow this guide

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … ting_Linux

and just use one of your other distros to install arch on the LV.