Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Ray Van Dolson wrote:
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...
Do you mean right after booting off CD #1? alt-F2 does nothing F2 lists
options like linux askmethod.
No, you have to answer the startup questions first. By the time or
before you get to the disk partitioning screen you can use alt-F4 to get
a text-mode shell in a virtual console. Usually it is alt-f7 to get
back to the X install screen. If you've already gotten to the disk
setup screen, there should be a 'back' button at the bottom. Going to
the previous screen and back will make it re-detect your new partitions.
I do this the hard way a lot of times because I like to make /boot,
swap, and / partitions in that order and raid1-mirror them and the
builtin setup wants to rearrange the partition order if it hasn't
already been created.
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Les Mikesell
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