Re: Cannot get Etch installer to accept partitions -- success

2008-12-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:06:26PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: No, I have not. Perhaps I should report not only the foregoing but also comment on the Installation Guide. I have spent a significant part of my career writing technical manuals. The Guide violates just about every good practice

Re: Cannot get Etch installer to accept partitions -- success

2008-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:06:26PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: No, I have not. Perhaps I should report not only the foregoing but also comment on the Installation Guide. I have spent a significant part of my career writing technical manuals. The Guide violates just

Re: Cannot get Etch installer to accept partitions -- success

2008-12-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:06:26PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: I have encrypted three of the LVs: home, swap and tmp. Home has a LUKS passphrase. The other two have random keys. You may want to consider encrypting /var/tmp, depending on what applications you use and where they may put stuff.

Re: Cannot get Etch installer to accept partitions -- success

2008-12-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:06:26PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: Have you submitted an installation report as per the installation manual and subscribed to debian-boot? The debian-boot people wrote the installer and should know what's up. No, I have not. Perhaps I should report not only

Re: Cannot get Etch installer to accept partitions -- success

2008-12-11 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Summary of what I have snipped from my original post which Douglas answered. I had created *six* RAID1 arrays, with only one partition in each array, and listed the details in my post. I've never considered having so many