Bug#450812: installation-reports: more info and issues
I pushed on with the install, which is still not successful. Here are
some more things that came up.
1. Installation refused to proceed without encrypted swap. Since this
is for a laptop and I wanted suspend to disk I didn't want it encrypted.
(On review, it looks as if I could encrypt as long as I don't choose
random keys.) Refusing to proceed seems a bit draconian.
Also, I am assuming that swap as a logical volume in an LVM volume group
will work with the suspend feature. I'm not sure if that assumption is
correct.
2. I walked most of the way through the encryption process with one
logical volume, and then got the error "This build of -di does not
include one or more programs that are required for partman_crypto to
function correctly." Earlier in the installation process it asks what
optional modules to load; I had picked dm-crypto but not some of the
other ones (for the install attempt reported in my earlier message I
selected mroe of these modules).
I do not know if the error reflects a missing program in the installer,
my failure to load the correct module, the fact that encrypting logical
volumes doesn't work, or something else.
3. The significance of the optional modules was not entirely clear to
me. My guess is they are not optional if you want to use certain
features. Since the installation manual made no mention of this for
encryption, for example, I wasn't sure. This may only be an issue in
expert mode.
4. The installation manual says
"First you will be given the opportunity to automatically partition
either an entire drive, or available free space on a drive. This is also
called “guided” partitioning. If you do not want to autopartition,
choose Manual from the menu."
It appears the only guided partitioning options available are for the
whole disk. This was one reason I selected guided partitioning in my
first attempt; the manual made me think it could handle just the free
space.
5. If encrypting LVM logical volumes is supported, the installer menu
item to encrypt a "physical volume" is inaccurate or at least
incomplete.
6. Although I deselected the dekstop task, with only laptop and standard
tasks selected, some X11 packages got downloaded. I'm not sure if that
is by design.
Ross
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