no LVM in Ubuntu 6.10 installer?
I’ve had my Ubuntu 6.10 torrent running since I saw the article on slashdot, but I just got around to burning a cd and installing it on a spare machine. I had only recently learned about the wonders of LVM, so I was very unpleasantly surprised to see that the LVM option was removed from the partitioning step. I only spent a minute in the “manual partitioning” dialogue, but there seemed to be no obvious way to tell the installer to use LVM.
In Ubuntu 6.06, you merely had to select “use LVM” at the partitioning step, and the installer would automatically create a volume group for you, etc. I’ll have to look into how to work around this new “feature” in 6.10.
February 4th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
You require the alternate install version not the standard desktop version for lvm option.
Alternate install CD
The alternate install CD allows you to perform certain specialist installations of Ubuntu. It provides for the following situations:
* creating pre-configured OEM systems;
* setting up automated deployments;
* upgrading from older installations without network access;
* LVM and/or RAID partitioning;
* installing GRUB to a location other than the Master Boot Record;
* installs on systems with less than about 192MB of RAM.
There are three images available, each for a different type of computer:
PC (Intel x86) alternate install CD
For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows. Choose this if you are at all unsure.
Mac (PowerPC) and IBM-PPC (POWER5) alternate install CD
For Apple Macintosh G3, G4, and G5 computers, including iBooks and PowerBooks as well as IBM OpenPower machines.
64-bit PC (AMD64) alternate install CD
For computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon). It is not necessary for all (even most) processors made by AMD — only their 64 bit chips.