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....
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
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...
What hardware are you on? And what error are you getting exactly on format?
Ray
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...
What hardware are you on? And what error are you getting exactly on format?
Ray
yeah... that'll work too.
It sounds like there's either something weird with the media being used to install from, or there's something wrong with the disk the system is being installed onto.
Mark
Mark Weaver wrote:
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...
What hardware are you on? And what error are you getting exactly on format?
Um. I'll try the Alt-F2. But the formatting was AFTER all the selection steps. What I want is just format. Then I will leave it as is...
And if the format fails again, maybe I will learn more than 'critical formatting error, install aborting' or words similar!
Oh, and this IS a test machine to get a kickstart file from....
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Mark Weaver wrote:
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...
What hardware are you on? And what error are you getting exactly on format?
Um. I'll try the Alt-F2. But the formatting was AFTER all the selection steps. What I want is just format. Then I will leave it as is...
And if the format fails again, maybe I will learn more than 'critical formatting error, install aborting' or words similar!
Oh, and this IS a test machine to get a kickstart file from....
well... if it's a test machine then were it me I'd stick different hard drive in the machine to test and see if the current drive might be the problem. barring that I'd try switching out the CD drive.
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.
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.
Nope, boot up normally. Once you're at the welcome screen in the installer, then you can press CLTR-ALT-F2 to drop to a console prompt. Here you'll be able to set up a /boot partition, mkfs.ext3 it, tag the remaining space as LVM and then use the lvm tool to create your volumes and logical volumes and create the filesystems on top of them.
Ray
Ray Van Dolson wrote:
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.
Nope, boot up normally. Once you're at the welcome screen in the installer, then you can press CLTR-ALT-F2 to drop to a console prompt. Here you'll be able to set up a /boot partition, mkfs.ext3 it, tag the remaining space as LVM and then use the lvm tool to create your volumes and logical volumes and create the filesystems on top of them.
Oh, that is going to be a lot to read up on.
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:04 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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.
---- I think he meant <Control><ALT><F2>
Craig
Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:04 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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.
I think he meant <Control><ALT><F2>
Yes, if you are in X, you need ctl-alt-fkey to switch VCs. If you aren't already in X you can do it with alt-fkey. Regardless, you have to be a little farther along in the install before it works.
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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.
No, you have to answer the startup questions first. By the time or before you get to the disk partitioning screen you can use alt-F4 to get a text-mode shell in a virtual console. Usually it is alt-f7 to get back to the X install screen. If you've already gotten to the disk setup screen, there should be a 'back' button at the bottom. Going to the previous screen and back will make it re-detect your new partitions. I do this the hard way a lot of times because I like to make /boot, swap, and / partitions in that order and raid1-mirror them and the builtin setup wants to rearrange the partition order if it hasn't already been created.
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