Kickstart is your friend in these kinds of situations. You can even give it a ks link at boot pointing to a web server or something if you want if you don't want to automate the entire process.
-Blake On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Chris McQuistion <[email protected]>wrote: > It's on VMware, right? You can just boot up from another ISO file, if you > want. I think you might be able to boot up from "linux text" or something > on that CentOS install disk, to just get a command line (or the CentOS > LiveCD). > > > On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > >> One of my LEAST favorite things about CentOS is its graphical installer, >> specifically the partitioning tool. I want my disk laid out _MY_ way, >> thank you very much. I may be wrong but at least I am consistent! >> >> I've done my usual set of primary partitions and now I want sda4 to be >> the rest of the disk as a LVM space. If I go to create that space, the >> utility proceeds to smack that sucker as sda2. grrrrrr. >> >> If this were a regular system, I would boot to a live CD, lay out the >> partitions the way I want and then run the installer, changing what I need >> to change to build the fstab in the install. But no, this is a virtual >> guest. Guess I'm gonna learn how to boot a "naked" virtual guest from a >> live CD. >> >> How ghetto is that? >> >> Howard >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@** >> googlegroups.com <nlug-talk%[email protected]> >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** >> group/nlug-talk?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> >> >> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to >> nlug-talk+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit >> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >> . >> > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
