[CentOS] centos5.5 text install forcing me to add all disks to LVM volgroup

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Tue Jun 29 18:13:11 UTC 2010


Dave wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
> wrote:
>> At Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:15:20 -1000 CentOS mailing list
>> <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>> > So, am I stuck? It seems like my only option is to go ahead and add
>> > both disks, then try to remove one of the disks after completing the
>> > install. Is there some sort of workaround for this?
>>
>> You should *manually* remove the partitions and *manually* partition
>> /dev/sda the way you want, with the basic set of file systems (/boot, /,
>> /home, etc.).  The defaults are just not appropriate for what you are
>> doing.
>
> So you're saying that if I use the default partitioning for sda, I
> have touch sdb also? There is no way to make the text installer
> install a default setup on sda and just leave sdb alone? Is this a
> feature?

*shrug*
"Custom partition", which is what I *always* do, both at work and at home,
since, unlike WinBlow$, I *NEVER* want everything on the same
partition....

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