Hi Rich If you have a 2TB drive you shouldn’t need to do anything to it. If you are creating a new install for a workstation just follow Fred guide bellow and CentOS will handle the formatting of the drive:
http://static.paravelsystems.com/rivendell-install/rivendell-install-rhel6.html Thanks Stan > On 17 Nov 2018, at 5:41 am, Rich Stivers <[email protected]> wrote: > > Stan: > > I appreciate your reply. I took a look at the program's website and this > looks much easier than rescue mode. > Pardon my ignorance, but I've never partitioned a new drive in linux. What > partitions do I create in preparation > for a Rivendell install? Would one large partition for the entire disk work > OK for starters, or would multiple > partitions be better and what size? I have a 2TB drive. > > Many Thanks and Regards, > Rich > > >> On 11/16/2018 02:21, Stan Fotinos wrote: >> Hi Rich >> >> You might want to look at Gparted live, this should help you with this. >> >> Kind regards >> >> Stan >> >> On 16 Nov 2018, at 5:20 pm, Rich Stivers <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> This is not a Rivendell question per se, but I need to replace a bad system >>> drive on one of my Rivendell workstations running >>> Centos 6. I have a brand new hard drive that has never been formatted. I've >>> read online that new drives can be formatted in >>> Rescue Mode booted from an installation disk. >>> >>> After I boot my Rivendell Appliance DVD into Rescue Mode, what commands and >>> parameters are ideal to create the proper >>> partitions, etc. for a Rivendell installation? Does the formatting >>> procedure change depending if the computer uses BIOS or >>> UEFI? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Rich Stivers >>> KKUP-FM 91.5 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Rivendell-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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