reassign 447216 debian-installer thanks Hi Pascal,
I'm reassigning this bug to the debian-installer folks, as it's more their area. On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:27:44AM -0300, Pascal Vaillant wrote: >Package: cdimage.debian.org >Severity: wishlist > > >I installed lenny on an ASUS X51 laptop with very few problems, using >the 2007/10/17 netinst release. > >There is just a remark I would make: at partition stage, on of the first >stages of installing a new Debian system, you are left with only two >choices: either repartition an entire physical disk and use LVM on it, >or partition the classical way. Since I wanted to keep a Windows partition, >I did not choose the first option. But with the second, there is no way >to use LVM "on the fly". > >The partition menu lets you select a partition as a "LVM physical volume" >(I tried that), but it turned out that the PV was not detected afterwards. >I had to re-create it. > >To mention my particular example: I kept two physical partitions pre-installed >by Windows Vista (one hidden, for recovery; one for the "C:" volume); I >installed a 3 GB bootable linux root partition on a third physical partition; >and I wanted to use the fourth available physical partition to host a >LVM volume group, on which I intended to keep /usr, /home, and /var >logical volumes. > >Since I wasn't able to use LVM during install, the install process located >everything I required on the first step (fortunately not too much), >on a /usr directory physically belonging to the 3 GB root filesystem. > >Only after install was I able to configure LVM with usr, home and var >as logical volumes. I had to copy the contents of the old /usr into >the new (ie LV) /usr, the same for /var, and to edit /etc/fstab by >hand. > >In the future it would be more user-friendly if this could be included >in the install process. > >Thanks for the job anyway. > >-- System Information: >Debian Release: lenny/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') >Architecture: i386 (i686) > >Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) >Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) >Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
