Bug#424942: debian-installer: Cannot use entire RAID device rather than partitioning it

[Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal

The partitioner does not allow using an entire RAID device such as /dev/md0;
it wants to partition the device.  I want to use /dev/md0 as an LVM container,
so I don't want to create a partition; a partition just means one more thing I
have to resize if I want to add to the RAID later.

Also, when attempting to create the partition on the RAID, I got an error
along the lines of "Failed to tell the kernel about the new partitions on
/dev/md0".

I managed to get the setup I wanted by manually running pvcreate, vgcreate,
and lvcreate at the shell, then using the partitioner to create the filesystem
and use the partition as /.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rc1 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash