Install problems: Encrypted LVM Lubuntu install on USB hard drive

[Tom Cloyd]

On 10/18/2015 10:19 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:

On 10/18/2015 10:14 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote:

check with gparted on more time (all's well), and start my attempt #5

Might the "Volume group name already in use" message occur because of the
above (the checking one last time with gparted)?

I'm sorry to have to report that all my attempts to install an encrypted
Lubuntu OS to a USB hard drive have failed.

I won't even try to catalog the hills and valleys I've gone through trying
to get the installation procedure to work. I have to conclude that it
simply has not been adequately tested. No matter what error I work my way
through, another one pops up. I have to cut my time losses and abandon the
effort.

One thing that certainly needs to be fixed is this: once the install to the
USB drive actually starts, and before it throws up whatever error it's
cooked up this time, there is a complaint about the existence of an
unencrypted swap, and a request that I run "swapoff". I then have to blow
off the install process, get back to a command line to run swapoff, then
restart the whole process. This is plain stupid. That workflow just makes
no sense.

Is there any way to do this install without using the normal installation
procedure? A way that actually might work?

Thanks for any help offered.

Tom

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