Re: preseeding/partman-auto: LVM expert recipe problem

[Raf Czlonka <rjc@linuxstuff.pl>]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:49:52AM BST, Thorsten Sperber wrote:
>                 100 1000 100 ext3                      \
>                         $lvmok{ }                       \
>                         method{ format }                \
>                         format{ }               \
>                         use-filesystem{ }               \
>                         filesystem{ ext3 }              \
>                         mountpoint{ / }                 \

You're using 100MB as both the minimum and the maximum size of the "/"
(root) partition. It probably (I'm almost 100% sure) is not enough
space even for a basic installation - read point 7 in the document you
quoted.

> My desired recipe contains an explicitly declared PV, some more LV
> with more defined stuff and follows all the rules I found in the
> debian-installer:$doc/debian-installer/devel files (which could
> really need some more examples and rules description),

In the same document read points 5-6.

> The basic problem is the wrong calculation of the minimum size. I
> already tried it with different priorities to see their effect on
> the result, but no change.

I guess it's not the priority - it's the size.

Regards,
-- 
Raf