8.10 alternative CD installer amd-64: dm-crypt on software RAID. Fail
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| debian-installer (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: debian-installer
Dear all,
I´m migrating from another distribution to Kubuntu and wanted to carry over my splendid and worthwhile software RAID disk partitions (/dev/mdWHATEVER). This seemed to go smoothely.
I also wanted to carry over having one of those RAID as kernel level encryption. I read the many excellent tutorials, and found out that the road was likely to be not so smooth for encryption in general.
I found the hard way that having no swap partition was the only way to get past the partitioner with any kind of encryption.
So, I had no swap partition and I went for encryption on one of my MD partitions. The installer partitioner sort of went along with it, but it never really caught on. The best I got was a new volume (which was encrypted) onto which the partitioner wanted to write a partition table (uh-oh!).
So, in the end I had to give up on the combination of MD and dm-crypt. That is the problem I would like to point out to those who are engaged in making the installer even better.
Best Regards
Jens
