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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