[CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

[Mark Weaver]

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....
> 

If I'm understanding you correctly you want to forgo the task of 
choosing all the packages. If this is the case you might try going 
through the installation on a test machine (a machine that doesn't 
really matter how the installation resolves) and when it's time create a 
  kick-start disk. That you can essentially fire-and-forget when you 
start the install of your live system.

Mark