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Re: partition magic-ally

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:28:44PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote:


If you have not yet installed, then don't worry about it.  The installer
lets you choose LVM as an option.  Then you can add your harddrive as a
physical volume and then make it the logical volume.  From there you can
create volume groups, which are analogous to partitions but can be
resized at will.  The installer walks you through the whole process very
nicely.
-Roberto
I have to disagree with the last statement (The installer walks you through the whole process very nicely). I've recently installed 2 Debian machines using the new installer. Both times I thought about using LVM because of it's advantages so I selected that option to have a look at it. It just confused the hell out of me to the point where I gave up and did a numpty single partition ext3 install (/ and swap separate). It's a shame because I would have really liked to have tired LVM. I would say that is the one weak point in an otherwise great installer. 




Did you read the docs prior?  Because I really had no problem with it.
I'm not sure what confused you.  Did you file a bug a against the
install-reports pseudopackages?  It would have helpped the installer
developers to improve it.

-Roberto
When I first tried out the new installer yes I did read what documentation was available (the version of the installer I used was a pretty early release so I thought it would be worth mugging up on it) but I admit that the couple of times I have used it recently (in the last month) I didn't read the documentation before diving in.
While it would be nice to live in a world where everyone sat down and read all the documentation before proceeding few of us actually have time to do that. IIRC the problem was that the various different pseudo partitions and their interaction with real partitions wasn't very well explained. I think I was also confused about whether or not I could boot off a LVM partition.
While I would like to submit a bug report it would be of little use now as it was to long ago for me to remember exactly what was wrong and I didn't take notes at the time. Hopefully there is someone from the installer group reading this thread.
What would have been nice was a I-want-to-use-LVM-but-I-can't-be-chuffed-to-learn-about-it-right-now-so-just-give-me-something-sensible button. But hey we can't have everything we want. 

Graham
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