Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS5 installation crashes

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Henry
Scott Silva wrote: > I think you still need a small /boot partition unless grub will > finally boot from LVM. that did the trick! thanks for the tip. There is no warning dialogue to tell you this during the install. Another thing I noticed is that the drive size changes to a slightly smaller siz

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 installation crashes

2008-02-14 Thread Andrew Henry
Johnny Hughes wrote: > I would suggest that you try the install by shrinking the / partition > in the LVM tab and install with only / and swap ... thent you can > later add /home and /tmp (and var too, though harder, if you want) > after the install and see if that has any effect. > > This smells l

[CentOS] CentOS5 installation crashes

2008-02-14 Thread Andrew Henry
Im installing CentOS5.1 on an Acer Aspire 5021 laptop with AMD Turion64 and ATI X700 128MB gfx card. I want to partition my 80MB ATA disk as LVM, so I: Choose custom partition. delete all existing partitions. add one LVM vg partition taking up entire disk. I do not change any default options. I

[CentOS] dmcrypt on install with centos 5.1?

2008-02-01 Thread Andrew Henry
Im new to the list and CentOS and wonder if there is any option to do full disk encryption with dmcrypt and LUKS during the install stage of CentOS 5.1? I use Debian Etch at the moment and Debian is able to to this. If not possible, are there any good guides that anyone knows about that explain h