I can't seem to figure out how to partition for install. I've tried both CentOS 8 and 7.7 netinstalls. I've got 3 disks: sda (big hardware RAID array), sdb (SSD), and sdc (internal SD card for booting). I want to put /boot on sdc, /usr on sdb, and / on sda. I don't care what format is used on sdb and sdc, whatever will let it boot. I want LVM on sda so that I can use snapshotting for backups. I can pre-format sdb1 and sdc1 as ext4 usinga gparted live DVD. If I select manual partitioning, I can then label and assign those two to /usr and /boot. I can see sda in the drives available on the first detination screen but but I don't see it in the manual partitioning screen. So I don't see how to partition and format it as an LVM volume that I can mount to /.
On 10/20/19 7:25 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote:> I can't seem to figure out how to partition for install. I've tried both > CentOS 8 and 7.7 netinstalls. > > I've got 3 disks: sda (big hardware RAID array), sdb (SSD), and sdc > (internal SD card for booting). I want to put /boot on sdc, /usr on sdb, > and / on sda. I don't care what format is used on sdb and sdc, whatever > will let it boot. I want LVM on sda so that I can use snapshotting for > backups. > > I can pre-format sdb1 and sdc1 as ext4 usinga gparted live DVD. If I > select manual partitioning, I can then label and assign those two to > /usr and /boot. I can see sda in the drives available on the first > detination screen but but I don't see it in the manual partitioning > screen. So I don't see how to partition and format it as an LVM volume > that I can mount to /.Do you select (green "checkbox") all three disks on the first destination screen before you enter manual partitioning? -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant
--On Sunday, October 20, 2019 9:18 PM +0200 Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs> wrote:> Do you select (green "checkbox") all three disks on the first > destination screen before you enter manual partitioning?Yes. I just ran gparted again and scrubbed sda and created a swap partition (primary) and physical volume, then a logical volume within the pv using 4 GiB (about 2/3 of the space). I formatted that ext4 and labeled it as root. Now I'm waiting for the CentOS installer to load to see if I can do something with that.