On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 03:21:57PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
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.
That is all explained in the LVM-HOWTO. Sorry, but LVM is an advanced
tool and concept. Jumping in without reading documentation is not
really a good idea. That is sort of like complaining becuase you can't
get your C++ program to compile when you haven't bothered to at least
read a book on it.
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.
The problem with LVM s that there is no "sensible" default. It is very
dependent on your hardware and other configuration options. There are
so many permutations that would not be feasible to do that. It is a
little different with standard partitioning because the only decision to
be made for a normal user is size. With LVM it depends on whether you
want your root on LVM, if you are or are not using RAID and various
other things.
-Roberto