Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: wishlist
I installed lenny on an ASUS X51 laptop with very few problems, using the 2007/10/17 netinst release. There is just a remark I would make: at partition stage, on of the first stages of installing a new Debian system, you are left with only two choices: either repartition an entire physical disk and use LVM on it, or partition the classical way. Since I wanted to keep a Windows partition, I did not choose the first option. But with the second, there is no way to use LVM "on the fly". The partition menu lets you select a partition as a "LVM physical volume" (I tried that), but it turned out that the PV was not detected afterwards. I had to re-create it. To mention my particular example: I kept two physical partitions pre-installed by Windows Vista (one hidden, for recovery; one for the "C:" volume); I installed a 3 GB bootable linux root partition on a third physical partition; and I wanted to use the fourth available physical partition to host a LVM volume group, on which I intended to keep /usr, /home, and /var logical volumes. Since I wasn't able to use LVM during install, the install process located everything I required on the first step (fortunately not too much), on a /usr directory physically belonging to the 3 GB root filesystem. Only after install was I able to configure LVM with usr, home and var as logical volumes. I had to copy the contents of the old /usr into the new (ie LV) /usr, the same for /var, and to edit /etc/fstab by hand. In the future it would be more user-friendly if this could be included in the install process. Thanks for the job anyway. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
