Re: [CentOS] centos5.5 text install forcing me to add all disks to LVM volgroup

2010-06-29 Thread Dave
I ended up going ahead and letting the installer do whatever, then I removed the logical volume. The howto (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/removelv.html) is not so helpful about helping you figure out what you need to know. Unfortunately I clobbered my history file & don't really know how I did it

Re: [CentOS] centos5.5 text install forcing me to add all disks to LVM volgroup

2010-06-29 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > *shrug* > "Custom partition", which is what I *always* do, both at work and at home, > since, unlike WinBlow$, I *NEVER* want everything on the same > partition I've been bitten a few times with the partitioner programs. My strategy now is to con

Re: [CentOS] centos5.5 text install forcing me to add all disks to LVM volgroup

2010-06-29 Thread m . roth
Dave wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Robert Heller > wrote: >> At Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:15:20 -1000 CentOS mailing list >> wrote: >> > 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

Re: [CentOS] centos5.5 text install forcing me to add all disks to LVM volgroup

2010-06-29 Thread Dave
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > At Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:15:20 -1000 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > 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

Re: [CentOS] centos5.5 text install forcing me to add all disks to LVM volgroup

2010-06-28 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:15:20 -1000 CentOS mailing list 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 dri

[CentOS] centos5.5 text install forcing me to add all disks to LVM volgroup

2010-06-28 Thread Dave
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 s