Re: Cannot get Etch installer to accept partitions
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 04:16:43PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote:
> For a total of twelve hours since yesterday I have been trying to
> install Etch in a new box, but I have never been able to get beyond the
> partitioner. Every time I try the installer for one reason or another
> produced failure messages.
I'll put ideas and questions in-line.
>
> I now have the following partitioning table.
> -------------
> Encrypted volume (crypt 0) - 1.0 GB Linux device-mapper
> #1 primary 995.2 MB F swap swap
> Encrypted volume (crypt 1) - 1.0 GB Linux device-mapper
> #1 primary 995.2 MB f xfs /tmp
> Encrypted volume (crypt 2) - 985.2 GB Linux device-mapper
> #5 logical 985.2 GB f xfs /home
> Encrypted volume (md1_crypt) - 1.0 GB Linux device-mapper
> #1 primary 1 MB f swap swap
> Encrypted volume (md2_crypt) - 1.0 GB Linux device-mapper
> #1 primary 1 MB f xfs /tmp
> Encrypted volume (md6_crypt) - 985.2 GB Linux device-mapper
> #5 logical 985.2 GB f xfs /home
> RAID1 device #0 - 1.0 GB Software RAID device
> #1 1.0 GB K xfs /boot
should this not be marked for formatting?
> RAID1 device #1 - 1.0 GB Software RAID device
> #1 1.0 GB K crypto not active
should this not be something like "physical device for encryption"?
> RAID1 device #2 - 1.0 GB Software RAID device
> #1 1.0 GB K crypto not active
ditto
> RAID1 device #3 - 4.0 GB Software RAID device
> #1 4.0 GB K xfs /
should this not be marked for formatting?
> RAID1 device #4 - 4.0 GB Software RAID device
> #1 4.0 GB K xfs /usr
> RAID1 device #5 - 4.0 GB Software RAID device
> #1 4.0 GB K xfs /var
> RAID1 device #6 - 985.2 GB Software RAID device
> #1 985.2 GB K crypto not active
op cit
> SCSI2 (0.0.0) (sda) - 1.0 TB ATA SAMSUNG HD103UJ
> #1 primary 1.0 GB B K raid
> #2 primary 1.0 GB K raid
> #3 primary 1.0 GB K raid
> #4 logical 4.0 GB K raid
> #5 logical 4.0 GB K raid
> #6 logical 4.0 GB K raid
> #7 logical 985.2 GB K raid
> SCSI2 (0.1.0) (sdb) - 1.0 TB ATA SAMSUNG HD103UJ
> #1 primary 1.0 GB B K raid
> #2 primary 1.0 GB K raid
> #3 primary 1.0 GB K raid
> #4 logical 4.0 GB K raid
> #5 logical 4.0 GB K raid
> #6 logical 4.0 GB K raid
> #7 logical 985.2 GB K raid
> SCSI3 (0.0.0) (sdc) - 250.1 GB ATA WDC WD2500AAJS-0
> ------------------
> RAID1 devices #1 and #2 are intended respectively for swap and /tmp
> encrypted with a random key; RAID device #6 is intended for /home
> encrypted with a passphrase.
>
> Selecting the three RAID devices as physical volumes for encryption
> caused the the three (mdX_crypt) volumes to appear. When their pass
> keys were selected the three (cryptX) volumes appeared. I discovered
> that not creating partitions in those six volumes caused the installer
> to reject the partition configuration. So I created volumes in
> succession for each group, mdX_crypt and cryptX; but each one was also
> rejected in succession. Finally I created partitions for all six;
> whereupon the installer complained that I had duplicate mount points.
>
> Obviously something is wrong, but I am a loss as to what. I would
> appreciate advice as to what I need to do to get past the partitioning
> and so to the rest of the installation.
I haven't snipped anything, on purpose, so that everything is here to
look at in one email. Sorry if its too verbose for some.
I've never considered having so many raid arrays on two disks. I have
two arrays (both raid1, one for /boot, the other for LVM).
Since this is all raid1, I'd do it with two raid1s (one for /boot, the
other for LVM), and then use LVs to split up the raid1, then mark the
LVs as physical device for encryption.
Have you submitted an installation report as per the installation manual
and subscribed to debian-boot? The debian-boot people wrote the
installer and should know what's up.
Doug.
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