[ale] lvm for ubuntu install?

[Tim Watts]

Just an update that my LVM woes are gone on 9.10. After ingesting my RDA of 
carbs/grease/caffeine the universe started to appear more coherent. My main 
problem was not thinking like the developers who wrote the installer UI.

I assumed that "use entire disk and set up LVM" meant it would use the entire 
disk for the VG and allow you to carve out LVs within that or select a 
predefined scheme (otherwise, why bother right?). Once I clued into the fact 
that it means "use the entire disk for the VG/PV/LV except for a small chunk 
for /boot" it became clear that I wanted the Manual option.

The next mental roadblock was realizing that despite the task-oriented option 
list at the top of the screen, you don't start with any of them. You start by 
selecting a physical drive toward the bottom and carving out physical 
partitions, one for boot and one for LVM. THEN you select the Configure LVM 
task.

Not exactly the level of intuitiveness I've come to expect in installers. The 
lack of on screen hints and the mismatch between the online help and reality 
didn't help matters either.

But now I have a fresh squeaky clean image to play with so who cares...


On Wednesday 04 November 2009 12:56:07 pm Tim Watts wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 November 2009 12:05:02 pm Brian Pitts wrote:
> > On 11/04/2009 04:13 AM, Tim Watts wrote:
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > It's looking like the installer will only let me create volume groups
> > > containing a single physical/logical volume. Is that right?
> >
> > No, unless they've broken something in the installer you can definitely
> > have multiple logical volumes in a single volume group. Maybe
> > "Configuring the Logical Volume Manager (LVM)" at
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/installation-guide/i386/module-details.html
> > will be of some assitance?
>
> Thanks Brian. That's helping.
>
> Something may be broken because in the path I selected (guided partitioning
> w/ LVM setup) it says I should see a screen to select from a list of
> partitioning schemes. This isn't happening for me. It goes straight into
> creating / and swap partitions. It offers no option to resize, add etc. On
> one try I chose Manual but it just brought me back to the same or a
> previous panel (don't remember now).
>
> I downloaded the ISO from the gatech mirror and the sha1 matched.
>
> [ Side note: Just went back to my server to verify something and found that
> the installer decided to proceed without me! It also failed the install --
> apparently because it couldn't find the lvm2 package. This is some bad
> karmic! Thinking I'm going to wash my hands of 9.10 for now -- after I
> verify the CD. ]

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