Re: HELP NO INSTALL - this is not a CUPS thread

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On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 16:14 -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:59 -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote:
> >   
> >> Ok nice to be right back in the EXACT same position I was in several
> >> years ago regarding this motherboard and installing FC. I think it was
> >> FC3 that this first became an issue, but I was able to work around it
> >> and install FC. So now, I tried to install FC6/7 and I yet to find a way
> >> to get it installed.
> >>
> >> So now it has been a year or so without being able to run Fedora/CentOS.
> >> Please help as I really don't want to use Ubunto and especially not Suse.
> >>
> >> Anyone have an issue installing on the Asus board?
> >>
> >> Trying to install causes a seg fault when dealing with the hard drives
> >> either in BIOS setting compatibility mode or SATA mode. Anaconda shows
> >> the hard drives as "/dev/mapper" or something like that, but as you
> >> know, they should appear as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. All I ever see is a
> >> single "/dev/mapper" which suggests that Anaconda sees a raid array even
> >> after I fdisk the drives. Of coarse this also rendered the system
> >> unusable after the seg fault resulted in a reboot.
> >>     
> >
> > /dev/mapper is used whenever you tell the system to use LVM.  It you
> > do NOT use LVM-based partitions, then /dev/sda and /dev/sdb will work.
> >
> >   
> True here but we might not be on the same page. I do not have a choice
> but to use  /dev/mapper as anaconda determined this and it is not the
> case. 

Did you tell anaconda to use a custom disk layout?  It defaults to LVM,
but you can tell it otherwise.  Note that I've not tried the custom
layouts with F7 yet, so I may be talking through my hat.

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