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.
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> 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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