LiveInst does not recognize existing LV layout

Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7734 at cox.net
Sun Feb 28 20:51:15 UTC 2010


On 02/28/2010 03:41 PM, Martin Sourada wrote:
> So,
>
> I'm playing with the thought of installing Rawhide (the frozen one; it's
> the time of year for me to start testing it again) and the quickest way
> seemed to download a nightly snapshot of desktop live, weep F11
> partition (I dual boot with F12) and install on it. However, I have all
> the partitions, sans /boot, in a LV Group... And the live installer does
> not seem to be able to reuse it and since I want to wipe only two
> partitions out of the four in the lvg, I'm stuck.
>
> In more detail -- I've chosen custom layout and the installer detected
> two partitions -- ext3 /boot and physical lvm partition, but not the
> volume group and volumes inside it :( Gnome tools see those partitions
> though and are able to mount them without issues...
>
> So, I figured it would be best to ask here first whether this is
> expected (or if it might be issue on my side) and if not, I'll file a
> bug report.
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>

Which version of anaconda is in the liveinst?  I have seen this same 
behavior with the liveinst and the install DVDs, but, for the install 
DVDs the problem was fixed.  Anaconda in F13 Alpha RC4 is 13.32 and it 
detects VGs and LVs.



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