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.