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Re: bug in installer? (was Re: debian testing installer & encrypted LVM question)



Giorgos Pallas wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> To me it looks like a bug, but I'd like to show it to the list before
> filing it as a bug.
>
> My goal is to install debian testing using encrypted LVM, but not using
> the entire disk: I want to keep a free partition for installing vista
> (for educational purposes...).
>
> So, the steps that create a problem while running the installer are:
>
> select Manual partitioning
> create on the disks free space, the first primary (for installing vista)
> [this step may be irrelevant]
> create primary for /boot
> create primary and select 'use as encryption volume'
> write changes to disk
> select encrypted volume
> use as phycical volume for lvm
> configure Logical Volume Manager appears ->select it
> create volume group
> create logical volume -> for the root filesystem
> create logical volume -> for  swap
> finish partitioning and write changes to disk->
>
> I see the summary:
> "The partition tables of the following devices are changed:
> LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS
> LVM VG vg1, LV swap
>
> The following partitions are going to be formatted:
> LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS as ext3
> LVM VG vg1, LV swap as swap
> "
>
> -> failed to create a file system
> The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS
> failed
>
> As I can see, /dev/mapper now contains:
> vg1-rootFS
> vg1-rootFSp1
> vg1-swap
> vg1-swapp1
>
> Is this supposed to happen? Did I do something wrong?
>
> Giorgos
>
>   


and something more, important I guess: I was installing using the latest
testing image for amd64...
I will now try with the lenny installer for amd64...

G.

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