I can't seem to figure out how to partition for install. I've tried both CentOS 8 and 7.7 netinstalls.
I've got 3 disks: sda (big hardware RAID array), sdb (SSD), and sdc (internal SD card for booting). I want to put /boot on sdc, /usr on sdb, and / on sda. I don't care what format is used on sdb and sdc, whatever will let it boot. I want LVM on sda so that I can use snapshotting for backups.
I can pre-format sdb1 and sdc1 as ext4 usinga gparted live DVD. If I select manual partitioning, I can then label and assign those two to /usr and /boot. I can see sda in the drives available on the first detination screen but but I don't see it in the manual partitioning screen. So I don't see how to partition and format it as an LVM volume that I can mount to /.
On 10/20/19 7:25 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
I can't seem to figure out how to partition for install. I've tried both CentOS 8 and 7.7 netinstalls.
I've got 3 disks: sda (big hardware RAID array), sdb (SSD), and sdc (internal SD card for booting). I want to put /boot on sdc, /usr on sdb, and / on sda. I don't care what format is used on sdb and sdc, whatever will let it boot. I want LVM on sda so that I can use snapshotting for backups.
I can pre-format sdb1 and sdc1 as ext4 usinga gparted live DVD. If I select manual partitioning, I can then label and assign those two to /usr and /boot. I can see sda in the drives available on the first detination screen but but I don't see it in the manual partitioning screen. So I don't see how to partition and format it as an LVM volume that I can mount to /.
Do you select (green "checkbox") all three disks on the first destination screen before you enter manual partitioning?
--On Sunday, October 20, 2019 9:18 PM +0200 Ljubomir Ljubojevic centos@plnet.rs wrote:
Do you select (green "checkbox") all three disks on the first destination screen before you enter manual partitioning?
Yes.
I just ran gparted again and scrubbed sda and created a swap partition (primary) and physical volume, then a logical volume within the pv using 4 GiB (about 2/3 of the space). I formatted that ext4 and labeled it as root. Now I'm waiting for the CentOS installer to load to see if I can do something with that.
I was able to assign the resulting partitions within the installer. I did have to check "reformat" on all the ext4 partitions to make it happy.
It's now loading packages. It does throw up an error early that the authselect package is missing. I've never seen that package name before. I'm using this mirror and there's no RPM of that package in the Packages directory:
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Ljubomir Ljubojevic