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

[Robert Moskowitz]

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.