Package: installation-reports Boot method: Businesscard CD, Snapshot from 2008-08-22 Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso Date: 2008-08-22
Machine: VirtualBox 1.6.4 (running on Windows XP Pro SP3) Processor: virtual (VM), Core 2 Duo (host) Memory: 512MB (VM), 3GB (host) Partitions: see below Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [O] Configure network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [E] Install base system: [ ] Clock/timezone setup: [ ] User/password setup: [ ] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Overall install: [ ] Comments/Problems: I have the following goal for a new file server. Since I would like to test data security/safety before installing the real machine, I tried it on a VM with VirtualBox 1.6.4 (Windows). (The behavior could be reproduced with VMware Server 1.0.6, as well.) VirtualBox supports SATA disks. I created three 2GB SATA disks. My goal: 250M /dev/sd[abc]5 --> RAID1: /dev/md0 --> ext3 --> /boot 500M /dev/sd[abc]6 --> crypt (random key) --> swap 1.4G /dev/sd[abc]7 --> RAID5: /dev/md1 --> LVM: vg1 --> LV: /dev/mapper/vg1-root --> crypt (password) --> / - Use crypt and RAID5 for the root partition to keep the data safe and secure. - Keep /boot on a RAID1 to be bootable. - Use three swap partitions to keep the same HDD layout on all disks. Steps taken to get to the goal: 1. Partition disks a. /dev/sd[abc]5: 250M, raid b. /dev/sd[abc]6: 500M, crypt (random key) c. /dev/sd[abc]7: 1.4G, raid 2. Configure software RAID a. /dev/md0: RAID1, /dev/sd[abc]5 b. /dev/md1: RAID5, /dev/sd[abc]7 3. Partition disks a. /dev/md1: lvm 4. Configure LVM a. /dev/md1: volume group (name: vg1) b. vg1: Create LV (name: root, size: 2G) 5. Partition disks a. /dev/mapper/vg1-root: crypt (passphrase) 6. Configure encrypted volumes a. /dev/sd[abc]6 are automatically set up (swap) b. /dev/mapper/vg1-root_crypt is automatically set up (ext3) 7. Partition disks a. /dev/mapper/vg1-root_crypt: ext3, / b. /dev/md0: ext3, /boot (In short: Create all partitions, create all RAID volumes, create LVM volume, create encrypted volumes, set mountpoints.) But the installer crashes and automatically restarts after step 4 (LVM). When it restarts, the main menu is seen. Selecting "Partiton disks" will lead to the progress bar being stuck at 52%. Game over. The restart message was: init: init: process '/bin/cttyhack /sbin/debian-installer' (pid 1002) exited. Scheduling for restart. Since I tried it in a VirtualBox VM, I guess this can be very easily reproduced. The problem of the installer crashing did *not* occur with beta 2 of the installer. However, the encrypted swap-on-RAID didn't work properly. (I think this issue has been solved in the meantime.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]