Re: ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

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On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:14:05PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Got all the way through the selection of packages.  All those time 
> consuming tasks and the install got to formating the drive and crashed on a 
> format error!
>
> Since I know exactly how I want to lay out the partitions, is there a way I 
> can boot from CD, and get into Disk Druid to set the partitions and do the 
> formating.  Then when I come to the install just select to keep the drive 
> how it is?
>
> And I have to have LVM....
>

You could hit ALT-F2 and set everything up from the console by hand
(including formatting) and then just tell disk druid _not_ to format.
I haven't tried that, but it feasibly might work...

What hardware are you on?  And what error are you getting exactly on
format?

Ray
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