Mark Weaver 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... >> >> What hardware are you on? And what error are you getting exactly on >> format? Um. I'll try the Alt-F2. But the formatting was AFTER all the selection steps. What I want is just format. Then I will leave it as is... And if the format fails again, maybe I will learn more than 'critical formatting error, install aborting' or words similar! Oh, and this IS a test machine to get a kickstart file from....