ubuntu-22.04 Installer won't let me delete partition?

[Josef Wolf]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 06:50:17PM +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, dem 26.04.2023 um 17:26 +0200 schrieb Josef Wolf:
> > On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 02:26:53PM +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, dem 26.04.2023 um 14:12 +0200 schrieb Josef Wolf:
> > > > I guess, you are talking about "Custom storage layout"
> > > > 
> > > > I really don't see how to create encrypted partitions without lvm...
> > > 
> > > I've looked. It's the fifth screen, which is titled "Installation type".
> > > There you have the choices "Erase disk and install Ubuntu" and "Something
> > > else". Possibly, there are more choices for you.
> > 
> > OK, you are about the desktop image, 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > while I am about the server image
> > ubuntu-22.04.2-live-server-amd64.iso
> > 
> > But on the desktop installer, I also can't find how to delete a partition (to
> > repartition).
> 
> Hmmm... I can't remember having trouble to repartition the discs with the
> 22.04 installer (desktop version).

If it is possible to delete/resize existing partitions, then they have done a
good job hiding this functionality.

> > So I have to
> >  1. download desktop image
> >  2. boot desktop live system
> >  3. enter all the gory details for language/keyboard/network
> >  4. use gparted to re-partition
> >  5. learn that gparted is not able to create encrypted partitions
> 
> You don't do that with gparted. This is to be done with the installer (for
> the desktop version, at least). You only create the partition which is to be
> used for encryption, and make it an encrypted partition with the installer.

But to create a new partition, I need to have room on the disk. So I have
either to delete or to resize one of the existing partitions.

> >  6. boot desktop install system
> >  7. enter all the gory details for language/keyboard/network again
> >  8. recreate partition to mark them to be encrypted
> >  9. start install (so that encryption is actually created)
> > 10. abort install
> > 11. boot server image to do the real install
> > 12. enter all the gory details for language/keyboard/network again
> > 
> > Is this the workflow that the creators of the new installer had in mind?
> > 
> > In find this quite ridiculous...
> 
> It is!
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Volker



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