[CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

Tue Jan 8 00:28:29 UTC 2008
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

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.