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From: Ken Heard on 4 May 2008 17:10 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to install Etch in a new box which has an Intel dual core CPU and a 250 gB SATA hard drive. Since the instructions in the Etch Installation Guide have not been helpful, I was consequently left with my intuition, which unfortunately proved insufficient for me successfully to complete the partitioning. What I wanted to do is create a two primary partitions. One (sda1) of 82.2 mB would be for /boot partition. The other (sda2), comprising all the remaining space on the hard drive, would be the one and only physical volume (for the time being) of the LVM, which in turn would be used for the one and only volume group in the system, named SOL. In this volume group I wanted to create six logical volumes of varying sizes, labelled home, root, swap1, tmp, usr and var. Of those six logical volumes, I want two of them (swap1 and home) to be encrypted. After I created those two primary partitions and the logical volumes I wanted, the partition overview screen showed the following: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LVM VG SOL, LV home - 223.1 gB Linux Device Mapper #1 223.1 gB LVM VG SOL, LV root - 3.2 gB Linux Device Mapper #1 3.2 gB LVM VG SOL, LV swap1 - 3.2 gB Linux Device Mapper #1 3.2 gB LVM VG SOL, LV tmp - 1.1 gB Linux Device Mapper #1 1.1 gB LVM VG SOL, LV usr - 16.1 gB Linux Device Mapper #1 16.1 gB LVM VG SOL, LV var - 3.2 gB Linux Device Mapper #1 3.2 gB SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 250.1 gB ATA WDC WD2500AAJS.0 #1 primary 82.2 mB B F ext3 /boot #2 primary 250.0 gB K lvm Undo changes to the partitions. Finish partitioning and write changes to disk. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I selected the "Finish" option, the following was returned: No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu. I went back to the partitioning menu but could find no way to indicate where to mount each logical volume, nor to indicate which volumes were to be encrypted. My question: can I do what I want to do and -- if so -- how? Ken Heard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIHiOblNlJzOkJmTcRAg9JAJ9tE76VrTyIyLOF89aAJ9lWXtIZRgCeIxRS h4wIaK0ds0CAWWjsztpSs8A= =tTXs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Douglas A. Tutty on 4 May 2008 21:10 On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:59:07PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > LVM VG SOL, LV var - 3.2 gB Linux Device Mapper > #1 3.2 gB > SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 250.1 gB ATA WDC WD2500AAJS.0 > #1 primary 82.2 mB B F ext3 /boot > #2 primary 250.0 gB K lvm > > Undo changes to the partitions. > Finish partitioning and write changes to disk. > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > When I selected the "Finish" option, the following was returned: > > No root file system is defined. > Please correct this from the partitioning menu. > > I went back to the partitioning menu but could find no way to indicate > where to mount each logical volume, nor to indicate which volumes were > to be encrypted. > > My question: can I do what I want to do and -- if so -- how? Its too soon to finish. You have marked for creating the LVs, and have labled them, but you still much choose each one (move curser, hit enter) and select "use as" and select a filesystem type, a filesystem lable, a mount point, etc, just as when you selected partition #1 and marked it "use as" ext3, mount on /boot, and partition #2 as "use as" physical volume for LVM. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Alex Samad on 5 May 2008 01:50
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 05:52:11PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > [snip] Can I suggest 2 things 1 make a bigger boot partition (i typically make it 500M - the cost of drives make this easy, plus it gives you room to move) 2 make another primary partition for root, I typically make it 10G, but you can make it a lot smaller. Easier for recovery when your root is on a primary partition and plain ext3. > When I selected the "Finish" option, the following was returned: > > No root file system is defined. > Please correct this from the partitioning menu. > > I went back to the partitioning menu but could find no way to indicate > where to mount each logical volume, nor to indicate which volumes were > to be encrypted. > > My question: can I do what I want to do and -- if so -- how? to answer your question: you need to select the create partition and then select a file system type and then a location > > Ken Heard > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFIHjALlNlJzOkJmTcRAjYcAJ9We60V96qnVAmDTkPg8hyirs7AaQCfVecR > Mm+R31Et4S0z7rWruaRX1Yo= > =3Oct > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org > > -- I'm sick of being trodden on! The Elder Gods say they can make me a man! All it costs is my soul! I'll do it, cuz NOW I'M MAD!!! -- Necronomicomics #1, Jack Herman & Jeff Dee |