Ok so the install has been seamless on a few machines and I decided to try it
on my laptop (a Dell D620). I had everything working great and kicked it
around a bit and then figured, if I'm going to keep this on my laptop I'll
need to reformat everything, enable some encrypted filesystems etc ... not a
big deal ... kind of
Here's the problem, the laptop has a resolution of 1440x900 and X wont start
up on it therefore, I do not get the graphical installer ... not a big deal if
you don't want to customize your volume groups and logical volumes, but I
would like to.
So far I've tested graphical installers from Mandriva and Knoppix and they
will actually load a graphical installer but CentOS 5 does not. Does anyone
know if there is a way for me to get the GUI installer so I can monkey with
VG's? currently these options aren't available in the curses menu set up.
And yes I know I could just as easily create regular etx3 filesystems with no
LVM2 stuff (no I'm not going to be adding more drives any time soon to my
laptop) but it would be nice to know it's possible. I was using LVM2 on my
last laptop and it was handy having the ability to grow and shrink some
filesystems.
I know it's probably not on the agenda from the upstream provider either but
automating the encryption of newley created filesystems at the point of
install would be sweet too :D
--
Lonny
--
"To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box,
you just need to work ON it."
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