Package: debian-installer Version: debian-6.0.3-i386-netinst Severity: important Dear Maintainer, While re-installing Debian on a netbook and a drive with an already existing LVM, a situation occurred where there was no way to complete partitioning (or at least, non-obvious). The existing drive was already partitioned with 4 primary partitions: 3 for NTFS and one Extended for Linux. All available space on the drive was allocated. In the Extended partition, there were 2 logical partitions: 1 for /boot (250 MB) and 1 for LVM (57 GB). Within LVM there was 1 Partition Group : HD Within the HD Partition Group there were 3 sub-partitions : root (2.5 GB), home (10 GB) and swap (2 GB). The system was booted from the installation media (USB flash drive, debian-6.0.3-i386-netinst.iso) and the standard Debian graphic installer was run. At partman, the object was to delete the /boot and LVM extended partitions and re-partition without an LVM. In attempting to do this, it became impossible to delete the LVM and complete the partitioning. The steps were taken in this order: 1) delete the existing /boot partition. 2) Configure the Logical Volume Manager. 3) delete the existing HD partition group. 4) attempt to delete the existing LVM (failed). No changes were allowed to the LVM partition because it was in use by volume group HD. It was not possible to delete the volume group HD because it was already deleted. It was not possible to exit partman because no root filesystem had been defined. It was not possible to define a root filesystem partition without freeing up the space occupied by the LVM. Cheers, Chris. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Attachment:
partman-base_partlocked_0.png
Description: PNG image
Attachment:
partman_choose_partition_0.png
Description: PNG image
Attachment:
partman-lvm_confirm_nochanges_0.png
Description: PNG image
Attachment:
partman-lvm_displayall_0.png
Description: PNG image
Attachment:
partman-lvm_mainmenu_0.png
Description: PNG image
Attachment:
partman-target_no_root_0.png
Description: PNG image
