Re: Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:34:07PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
> > Its too soon to finish. You have marked for creating the LVs, and have
> > labled them, but you still much choose each one (move curser, hit enter)
> > and select "use as" and select a filesystem type, a filesystem lable, a
> > mount point, etc, just as when you selected partition #1 and marked it
> > "use as" ext3, mount on /boot, and partition #2 as "use as" physical
> > volume for LVM.
>
> I understand what you are saying in the previous paragraph, and I
> expected to be able to do what you suggest. My problem is that the
> installer will not let me do that in LVM logical volumes -- I am *not
> allowed* to put the cursor on a LV, hit enter and make those selections.
>
> So, I am back to my original question: can I do what I want to do, and
> if so how? Otherwise should I abandon LVM altogether and file a bug report?
>
Well, I've done it with Etch i386 installer and amd64 installer. LVM
over raid1. Therefore, I don't know what problem you're having.
Doug.
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