On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:39 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

!st install of 5.2; system requires custom partitioning (Scalix mail server).

Boot and Swap are hard partitions, rest of drive is LVM.

In LVM, three ext3 partitions: /, /home, /var/opt/scalix

lvcreate failed for the last (named Scalix_02). It was the last of the three partitions and used up the remainder of the LVM space.

Now 'The Installer will now exit..." And all there is is a Reboot button.

Any idea on what the real error is, how to find out more, what to try next? It did take me a bit to walk through the packet selection.

Next I will try to build a more normal system :)

---- switch to the appropriate virtual console...

<Control><Alt><F3> # I think, it might be <Control><Alt><F4>

Craig

Robert Moskowitz wrote on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:39:06 -0400:

Any idea on what the real error is, how to find out more, what to try next? It did take me a bit to walk through the packet selection.

Anaconda doesn't have good error handling, so it likes to bomb out when doing complex custom partitioning. So, I tend to just install the basic setup and create any fancy partitions by hand after the install is done.

Kai