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