Ray Van Dolson wrote: >>> 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. >> > > Nope, boot up normally. Once you're at the welcome screen in the > installer, then you can press CLTR-ALT-F2 to drop to a console prompt. > Here you'll be able to set up a /boot partition, mkfs.ext3 it, tag the > remaining space as LVM and then use the lvm tool to create your volumes > and logical volumes and create the filesystems on top of them. Oh, that is going to be a lot to read up on.