perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jim Warner <>]

Our sysadmin recommended using 'dban' to wipe out the data partition put there by the LiveCD. After that, netinstall sailed right through. So thanks for that suggestion. 

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Caron, Shawn <> wrote:

Hello Jim,

 

I had this same issue with a clean install on a bare drive that had never been used.  After spending a day or so on trying to figure it out my work around was to install centos 6.5 first so that some default partitions were created, then tried the perfsonar install cd again and then it worked fine.  I only came to this work around after doing an ALT-F2 (drops to shell) when asked about drive selection and searching around the log files.  Perhaps someone else on this list can provide some more insight, but if I had to guess it had something to do with LVM.

 

-Shawn

 

From: [mailto:] On Behalf Of Jim Warner
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2014 11:49 PM
To: perfsonar-ps-users
Subject: [perfsonar-user] live-CD conversion problem

 

Looking at the picture in step 13 of the instructions: http://docs.perfsonar.net/install_centos_netinstall.html

 

While the example shows a disk that can be selected, on my computer no drives are listed.

 

The installation will not proceed without a drive.

 

I took a picture of my screen:

 

  http://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/nodisk.jpg

 

I also tried "use entire drive" with the same result. I restarted the live-CD after getting stuck, so I know there is a working drive.

 

Thanks.