Install problems: Encrypted LVM Lubuntu install on USB hard drive

[Tom Cloyd]

Nio,

That's a reasonable alternate path, I think. If I can get 14.04 to install,
than an upgrade from that will get me to 15.10, it that seems needed.
Interesting idea. Will give it a try. Thank you!

Tom

On 11/08/2015 04:24 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:

Hi again Tom,

Since you seem to have problems with 15.10, maybe the easy solution is
the try with Lubuntu 14.04.3 LTS and to select 'encrypted disk with LVM'
but *not* encrypted home.

For most purposes I think encrypted disk is enough. This will encrypt
the root partition and the swap partition (they are inside the encrypted
partition). Only the small boot partition is not encrypted.

The added security of encrypted home and cryptswap can be useful, if you
share the computer, and your data should be encryped between each other,
if you see what I mean. Otherwise encrypted disk is enough, and I
remember testing that it works in Lubuntu 14.04.2 (and I think also
14.04.3) from the desktop iso files.

Best regards
Nio

Den 2015-11-08 kl. 12:32, skrev Tom Cloyd:

An update (no early sleep tonight!):

1. All references to "5.10" etc. in previous email should have been "15.10".

2. Concern about monitor drivers, network chips, etc., are likely
misplaced, since I have tried to install from my 15.10 ISO alternate
disk from both my netbook (using a USB optical drive) and my desktop.
Different network access, and monitor, etc., in each case. Both have
been involved in successful installations of 15.04, previously.

3. Attempt to install 15.10 from ISO (alternate) to my USB hard drive
(with no encryption, no LVM) failed during the software installation. I
was offered the chance to retry this phase, and took it, leading to this
error message:

--- [!!] Software selection ]

Please insert the disc labeled: 'Lubuntu 15.10 _Wily Werewolf_ - {etc.}'
in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press enter.

This was odd, since that is the ISO disk, and it was already in the
drive. I unlatched the drive, and reinserted the disk, pressed
"continue" on the screen, and the installation merely looped. I'm stuck.
Failed installation.

The only thing left to try at this point seems to be to try an install
of the regular desktop 15.10 ISO, which I have downloaded but not yet
burned. I'll leave that to tomorrow. But what I must have is a fully
encrypted install. Maybe I should try plain Ubuntu?

Tom


On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Tom Cloyd <tomcloydmsma at gmail.com
<mailto:tomcloydmsma at gmail.com>> wrote:

    Nio, Aere, & Basil -

    Thanks so much for your responses. Much appreciated.

    "Can you install Lubuntu without encryption?"

    * My netbook is running 5.10, but was upgraded online from 5.4,
    installed from IOS dvd, to created a fully encypted LVM hard drive.
    * My desktop is running 5.04, installed from IOS dvd, but I had a
    problem with the fully encrypted LVM drive option, and had to settle
    for encypted /home only. I hope to reinstall with 5.10, to get a
    fully encrypted LVM physical drive.

    Desktop (from Lubuntu "System profiler and benchmark"):
    * Brand name and model: Dell Inspiron 530s
    * CPU: 2x Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual  CPU  E2200  @ 2.20GHz
    * RAM (size): 3090MB
    * graphics chip/card:
    ** Resolution: 1280x1024 pixels
    ** OpenGL Renderer: Unknown
    ** X11 Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
    * wifi chip/card: I have no idea, and I can't seem to get an answer
    on this anywhere.

    I'll try a 5.10 install to my USB harddrive, from the ISO disk
    (alternate version), unencrypted, tomorrow, after sleep!

    On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Basil Fernie <basil at pop.co.za
    <mailto:basil at pop.co.za>> wrote:


        I had a similar problem with 14.x on my Lenovo/AMD laptop, which
        appeared after a regular kernel update to .18 or .19 something,
        so I had to use Advanced Options on bootup to select an older,
        functional kernel version, for several months... 15.10 is OK, so
        far.


        On Sun, 08 Nov 2015 07:38:35 +0200, Aere Greenway
        <Aere at dvorak-keyboards.com <mailto:Aere at dvorak-keyboards.com>>
        wrote:

            On 11/07/2015 08:55 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote:

                boot attempt on both my netbook and desktop led to
                flashing cursor on blank screen

            I have a machine with an older graphics chip (an i815, as I
            recall), that booted to a blank black screen after updates
            were applied far into the 14.04 release.

            They had overcome that problem with 15.04 on that machine,
            but the problem is back in 15.10.  It now boots to a blank
            black screen again in 15.10.



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