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

[Les Mikesell]

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.

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   Les Mikesell
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