For the record, this is the CD available on <a href="http://cdimages.ubuntu.com">cdimages.ubuntu.com</a>, dated of 20090929-2. This was the latest daily CD this morning (US-CDT time). A brief introduction. My laptop has been going through version upgrades since Hardy; I have been running Karmic on it since pretty much the start. From last Monday I started having serious issues with the system, and this morning I decided it was high time for me to format the system partitions, and reinstall Karmic. The disk is partitioned as follows: sda1 - Dell diagnostics partition, FAT16, around 50M. sda2 - /boot, 1G sda3 - swap, 5G sda4 - LVM, rest of the disk. Under LVM we have: / /usr /usr/src /opt /var /srv /tmp /home All of these are logical partitions under LVM. I decided to format /, /usr/, /var, /tmp, and /home. /opt, /srv, and /usr/src would be maintained, and I carefully saved what I wanted from /home into /usr/src (I did not have access to any other media this week, and I need the system). Then, to install. Again, this is the alternate install for ADM64. Booted the CD, no problems, went into partitioning. Prob #1: my /opt, /var, and /usr/src are original ext3, upgraded to ext4. So I got the following issues: #1.1 If I mark the partitions above as EXT4 -- which they are --, they are marked as needing formatting. #1.2 if I mark the partitions above as EXT3 -- which they are *NOT* -- they are not marked as needing formatting, but fail to validate at the end of partitioning. Bypass to #1.1 and #1.2: do not mount the partitions during install. I do not know, yet, what will happen *after* the install. Prob #2: I wanted to encrypt only two of the partitions, /home and swap. So, when I was done setting up the parttions I went into encryption, and marked BOTH /home and swap to be encrypted. I then got prompted for the encryption key for /home *ONLY*. Gave it, and got to an error screen stating swap was not encrypted, so the install could not go on. After a series of tries, I found I would be able to encrypt the swap only by: (a) mark the swap as whatever other type of FS. I chose FAT32; (b) write the partition; (c) go back to partition, mark the swap as swap, then select to encrypt it. This *would* be a bypass, but during this process the installer lost track of the /home partition, and I was then warned that the partition that would be /home was not mounted on any mount point. Prob #3: if you mark a partition for encryption you CANNOT edit or change the mount point. Bypass: reboot, start from scratch, do NOT select any partitions to be encrypted. Right now I do not know how the tale will end. I am still installing. But I wonder if I will lose my partitions I wanted to keep. Please do not waste time stating "this is alpha", etc, etc. I know. I know the risk I was running in. It is worth noting, though, that this is the first time since Hardy that I can lose an existing partition. I will open bugs on these if they are considered real issues. Regards, -- ..hggdh..