At Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:15:20 -1000 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > > Graphic installer doesn't like my graphics card, so I am using the text > installer. I have two physical disks in my system. > > When I get to the "partitioning type" page, I choose "remove all partitions > on selected drives [etc]" and put an asterisk next to sda, no asterisk next > to sdb. I want to use sdb as a separate partition, no LVM, I figure I can > set it up after installing. Then I hit 'OK' and go to the warning page, say > yes. Review and modify partitioning layout - yes. > > So now I am looking at the partitioning page and I am surprised to see > /dev/sdb and sdb1 down at the bottom, since that disk was *not* selected. I > select sdb1 and try to delete, it says " unable to delete You cannot delete > this partition: this parition is part of the LVM volume group 'volgroup00'". > If I try to delete /dev/sdb1, it says I must choose a partiton. If i try to > edit volgroup00, it says 'LVM volume groups can only be edited in the > graphical installer." > > So, am I stuck? It seems like my only option is to go ahead and add both > disks, then try to remove one of the disks after completing the install. Is > there some sort of workaround for this? You should *manually* remove the partitions and *manually* partition /dev/sda the way you want, with the basic set of file systems (/boot, /, /home, etc.). The defaults are just not appropriate for what you are doing. > > > What if I actually had some data on that drive (fortunately I do not), would > it get wiped by this? > > > Mahalo, > Dave > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database heller at deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk