Graphic installer doesn't like my graphics card, so I am using the text installer. I have two physical disks in my system.
When I get to the "partitioning type" page, I choose "remove all partitions on selected drives [etc]" and put an asterisk next to sda, no asterisk next to sdb. I want to use sdb as a separate partition, no LVM, I figure I can set it up after installing. Then I hit 'OK' and go to the warning page, say yes. Review and modify partitioning layout - yes.
So now I am looking at the partitioning page and I am surprised to see /dev/sdb and sdb1 down at the bottom, since that disk was *not* selected. I select sdb1 and try to delete, it says " unable to delete You cannot delete this partition: this parition is part of the LVM volume group 'volgroup00'". If I try to delete /dev/sdb1, it says I must choose a partiton. If i try to edit volgroup00, it says 'LVM volume groups can only be edited in the graphical installer."
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?
What if I actually had some data on that drive (fortunately I do not), would it get wiped by this?
Mahalo, Dave
At Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:15:20 -1000 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Graphic installer doesn't like my graphics card, so I am using the text installer. I have two physical disks in my system.
When I get to the "partitioning type" page, I choose "remove all partitions on selected drives [etc]" and put an asterisk next to sda, no asterisk next to sdb. I want to use sdb as a separate partition, no LVM, I figure I can set it up after installing. Then I hit 'OK' and go to the warning page, say yes. Review and modify partitioning layout - yes.
So now I am looking at the partitioning page and I am surprised to see /dev/sdb and sdb1 down at the bottom, since that disk was *not* selected. I select sdb1 and try to delete, it says " unable to delete You cannot delete this partition: this parition is part of the LVM volume group 'volgroup00'". If I try to delete /dev/sdb1, it says I must choose a partiton. If i try to edit volgroup00, it says 'LVM volume groups can only be edited in the graphical installer."
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.
What if I actually had some data on that drive (fortunately I do not), would it get wiped by this?
Mahalo, Dave
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On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
At Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:15:20 -1000 CentOS mailing list centos@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?
mahalo, Dave
Dave wrote:
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
At Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:15:20 -1000 CentOS mailing list centos@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$, I *NEVER* want everything on the same partition....
mark
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
*shrug* "Custom partition", which is what I *always* do, both at work and at home, since, unlike WinBlow$, I *NEVER* want everything on the same partition....
I've been bitten a few times with the partitioner programs. My strategy now is to configure my partitions from the Gparted live CD, prior to a fresh installation.
Then using the Custom Layout, I only format and mount partitions with no data on them, like /, and /tmp. That way you safeguard any valuable data from being deleted during the installation.
HTH
Keith
I ended up going ahead and letting the installer do whatever, then I removed the logical volume. The howto (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/removelv.html) is not so helpful about helping you figure out what you need to know. Unfortunately I clobbered my history file & don't really know how I did it.
I'm still not sure whether this process would have clobber3ed the contents of the disk. Dave
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