At Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:28:30 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On 11/16/2010 12:36 PM, John Hodrien wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > > >> There never seemed to be a Disk Druid text support for LVM. If you do > >> not like the defaults (and I rarely do), you either have to be good with > >> kickstart (I am not) or use the Gui to set up the partitions as you want. > >> > >> For some test systems, when all I want to do is throw up a FC/Centos > >> system, I will just accept the defaults and then I have gotten by with > >> the text installer. > >> > > I guess you've always got Alt-F2/rescue mode to do the partitioning you need > > otherwise? > > Never knew about this, perhaps I will delve into it. The text installer fires off several virtual consoles. Console 1 (Ctrl-Alt-F1) is the usually dialog-based installer. Console 2 is a shell. And Colsole 3, 4, & 5 are bound to various stderr/stdout of different processes (you can watch various debug/verbose output of various aspects of the install process -- usefull if something goes wrong). -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments