not active

[rodger ellis]

hELLO jAMES,

I am not sure what you mean exactly.
you see after I complete the process as the outline 
on my last email and wirte the partition to disk or save to disk , I 
then get a screen that asks for the the root partition and mount point.



rodger
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Datum: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 20:32:22 +0100
Von: James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net>
An: rodger ellis <rellis at gmx.net>
CC: pkg-loop-aes-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org
Betreff: Re: not active

> On (30/06/07 12:05), rodger ellis wrote:
> > James
> > 
> > ok things seem to have gone ok except a little problem with mount points
> i think
> > 
> > heres what we have at the moment
> > 1 primary  501.7mb F ext3  /boot
> > 2 primary  1.4gb   K crypto not active
> > 3 primary  9.0gb   K crypto not active
> > pri/log FREE SPACE 2gb
> > 
> > in the case of the root partition 1.4gb I did set the mount / as root
> > same for home 9.0 gb but it comes up as not active?
> > finally the free space will be swap
> > is it ok to have primary partitions?
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for taking so long to reply.
> 
> What you have there looks ok to me.
> 
> I'm not sure whether 'not active' is correct for the crypto partitions.
> There should be a second group created on the partitioning screen for
> each crypto partition, where you can choose the filesystem type
> to over the crypto, and the mount point than it corresponds to.
> 
> If you don't see this then I believe that you need to select
> the 'Set up cryptographic partitions' or similar option from the top
> of the screen.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James
> 
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