Volume Group creation (SOLVE)

[David Abrahams]

Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi Alexander and folks,
>
> Finally I have VG and LVs created on GUI and got Ubuntu-6.06-amd64
> installed.  I'm now posinting this email from Ubuntu box.  There was no
> problem on the HD.
>
> The trick was after having VG and LVs created, I have to activate them
> allocating them as /, /home, etc.  Otherwise I was unable to finish
> partitioning.  On saving it complained / not found.  It took me
> sometime to dicovery this trick.

When you say "created on GUI" do you mean that you created an
installation of LVM with the graphical (live CD) installer?  How?  It
was my experience that it could only be done with the alternate
installer; the graphical installer simply doesn't have support for LVM
AFAICT.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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