I have given up on trying to get flash working again on my existing
system. I have decided, since I have a spare partition with LVM volumes
for /home, /var, /usr, /tmp, and swap that I would just reformat them
with mke2fs -j and reinstall using debootstrap into these volumes. I
followed the instruction in Appendix D of the installation manual, but
they seem to have changed since I installed Lenny the first time (and
Etch, before that) and there is no mention of how to install on LVM volumes.
Here is what I have done:
I reformatted:
/dev/hda1 (for /)
/dev/vg0/tmp
/dev/vg0/usr
/dev/vg0/var
/dev/vg0/home
I did:
mkswap /dev/vg0/swap
sync;sync;sync
swapon /dev/vg0/swap
I mounted /dev/hda1 on /mnt/debinst
I chrooted into /mnt/debinst
I made mountpoints for:
/tmp
/var
/usr
/home
I exited the chroot
I mounted:
/dev/vg0/tmp on /mnt/debinst/tmp
/dev/vg0/var on /mnt/debinst/var
/dev/vg0/usr on /mnt/debinst/usr
/dev/vg0/home on /mnt/debinst/home
I used debootstrap --arch ARCH lenny \
/mnt/debinst http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
to install the base system.
I then chrooted into /mnt/debinst, again, and did:
cd \dev
MAKEDEV generic
The instructions then say to create /etc/fstab and mount your
partitions. It tried that, but I can not access the LVM volumes to
mount them within the chroot. I seem to have everything that should
have been installed (150+ screens of files from ls -R /usr), but df says
that I have only used 9% of 280003 blocks of sysfs mounted on /sys.
Nothing else is shown. Can I just install lvm2 from within the chroot?
Will that allow me, then, to mount the volumes? Do I want to mount
the LVM volumes, since it seems that everything is available. But then,
what happens once I have everything ready to reboot into the new
partitions if I can't mount the volumes then? I don't remember having
this problem when I initially installed Lenny, which was also done
through a debootstrap chroot.
Are there instructions somewhere for doing the install onto LVM volumes?
I REALLY want to get a system with working flash. So does my daughter!
Help! Please.
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Marc Shapiro
mshapiro...@yahoo.com
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