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[James P. Kinney III]

During boot up you need to verify the integrity of the media. When you
see the boot# prompt put in "linux mediacheck" (no quotes) and make sure
the CD/DVD you are using is OK.

The actual partitioning and formatting does not occur until after the
package selection is complete.

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 15:43 -0400, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 July 2007 13:19, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> | Here's a short HOW-TO on RedHat RAID during the install:
> 
> James,
> 
> Thanks so much for your help.
> 
> I followed your directions and created a partition table
> 
> BUT
> 
> the RH installer never gave me a dialog box saying, in effect,
> 
> "Press [Enter] to partition and format the hard drive(s)."
> 
> As best I can tell, it never actually did that. That process should
> take several minutes as the system has two 250 GB drives.
> 
> I finished the partitioning and hit [NEXT] and the damn thing told me
> to reboot without ever actually formatting the drives.
> 
> Arghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> On reboot it was obvious that there was no existing partition table.
> 
> So I tried a second time (sure went faster the second time) but got the
> same result.
> 
> Clues would be appreciated.
> 
> Sean
> 
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