[CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

[Mark Weaver]

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