Hi,
I’m trying to install OpenSuse 11.2.
During installation there’s a problem. It offers to create an LVM with encryption. That’s fine.
The problem is: it only uses 15GB of my 250GB harddrive.
When I try to alter the partitions, I can’t.
When I try to remove the partitions and create new partitions myself it seems OK but a few minutes later the installation quits with 0333.
I googled on resizing the LVM, but it brought me nowhere. There seems to be no working manual on how to do that.
How do I install my system without having over 90% of my disk unused?
Never mind…
I had to swap my harddisk due to a failure, so I tought about swapping Ubuntu for OpenSuse as well (it’s basicly a server, although it’s no server hardware) but I just read it’s impossible to get VMware Server on 11.2, so I’ll guess I have to stick with Ubuntu.
I like Novell, so therefore I did think OpenSuse would be good but it seems that I’m wrong about that.
It is not impossible just hard. The problem is the installer does not like the newer kernels. AFAIK this is universal for all flavors of Linux. I don’t know why VMware refuses to fix it since a patch has been made and the problems seem well defined. Once installed it runs fine by all reports. I changed to Sun’s Virtual box out of disgust for the lack of support.
I know it doesn’t really run “out-of-the-box” on Ubuntu too, it has to be patched.
Although there is a script for Ubuntu (supplied by the community) which will download those patches for you and apply them.
But that’s still only a relative “minor” problem, wasting 235 GiB is a more important problem to me 
Maybe the next version can handle LVM in a better way.
The size of the partition can be defined at the install. Just select expert at the partition scheme.
I guess I did that:
When I try to remove the partitions and create new partitions myself it seems OK but a few minutes later the installation quits with 0333.
Installing without altering the partition size did result in a working install, both with 15GB of disk-space (LVM) and 250GB (non-LVM).
It seems that the partition manager mounts the partitions before entering the partition manager (resizing results in a “is in use”-error), then forgets to mount the partitions if the suggested partitions are deleted and created again.