Disc Testing

2007-04-07 Thread Philip Charles
Main i386 CDs Boot OK. Graphical and text installers OK. New system boots into gui Tried encrypted LVM. Very slow formatting. Is this normal? Not used. LVM and non-LVM formating works with single and multiple partitions. sources.list. cdrom points to etch; security points to etch. All

Re: Disc Testing

2007-04-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 07 April 2007 17:42, Philip Charles wrote: Tried encrypted LVM. Very slow formatting. Is this normal? Not used. LVM and non-LVM formating works with single and multiple partitions. Yes, this is normal. It writes random data to the whole disk, which obviously takes a while. The

Re: Disc Testing

2007-04-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:42:11AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: 3:45am on Easter Day. Going to bed. Cool, thanks for the help! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/ --