trial version: can't even install, asks for volume group

[Christian.Pelg]

Thanks again!

Does it need a device of its own or is it okay to install on a partition on the same device?

Christian

[JonMoore87]

a partition might be ok but to ensure your data is as safe as possible I would install it on a USB drive and just boot from that.
I'm using an internal usb port for the OS and the hard drives do data only.

Jon

[Christian.Pelg]

Okay...

I'll try more tomorrow and give you feedback then.

Thanks!

Christian

[symm]

christan

let us know how you make out tomorrow

[Christian.Pelg]

It seems that open-e doesn't accept partitions on a HDD but needs a seperate disk to be able to create a volume group. Booting from USB stick would work if that DELL stuff would accept anything and actually boot.

I will get new (of course old ones, but new to me ) PCs later and will try again then.

I know that normally noone would try it out on stuff that I use and I know that under normal circumstances it is a non existing problem... but oh well, that stuff is all that they give me for now.

Thanks for helping.

[Christian.Pelg]

Okay... I am using two HDDs in my "new" PCs now. It definitely expects a seperate HDD, otherwise it wouldn't find any units to create volumes. So I can create volumes and everything could be fine....

Now I am having the problem that I cannot make the failover function work. I'm going to make a new thread, so this here wouldn't get mixed up.

Thanks to everyone so far!

Christian