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

[Craig White]

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.
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I think he meant <Control><ALT><F2>

Craig