Unable to install encrypted w/o swap target from host w swap
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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partman-crypto (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I maintain a "system on an SDHC card" for banking and other secure usage. The card gets 2 partitions, an unencrypted /boot and a LUKS-encypted root. There's no swap since the card size is 16GB, and I need as much storage as I can get. The card gets plugged into a 2GB netbook, and I'm not heavily multitasking, so I never need to swap.
To install, I boot the alt-install CD on an existing Ubuntu desktop and go through manual partitioning of the card (no LVM of course). The installation doesn't complete because at the end, the installer complains that swap isn't encrypted. That's true, BUT the swap it's inspecting is on the host machine, and has no relevance to when I will be booting from the SD card.
To get around this, I had to go to Windows-only machine to do the install. Because there was no swap partition on its HD, everything went fine. What I really need is a way to tell the installer to totally ignore the host's swap partition when setting up the SDHC card.
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