owl102 wrote: ↑2019/06/17 06:44:10
Neither your username + password nor "root" + root password works as intended to login to CentOS?
jmacdougca wrote: ↑2019/06/16 23:19:38
sda2 is where i want to install the image. But when I get to assign an installation disk in the installation process it says my hard drives have 0 free space apparently.
Just select the hard disk sda anyway and select "I will configure partitioning" in the options below. When pressing "Done" afterwards, you will get the opportunity to select partitions for yourself.
OK IF there is is ZERO (0) free space is left that means that the disk is full. There are a few things you can do. I still would disconnect all the other drives as a safety precaution first so that the ONLY drive that is connected is the one you wish to write to, that way you can't accidentally overwrite a drive you don't want overwritten.
The easiest thing to do is what owl102 says: select Custom install set up the partitions, and after that it will say do you want to format, say Yes; alternately you also have the option to erase the existing data, once that is done partition as you would like, it will say format the partition, and be on your marry way.
A second alternative is simply to use GParted and simply erase the existing drive, and reformat the entire drive, then proceed with the install. Now 100% of the drive will be available to receive new data. The great thing about GParted is you can visually see exactly what partitions currently on the drive, and you can then opt to erase them, and then reformat the entire drive. Indeed when I discover an old funky drive in a hand-me-down the first thing I do is reformat the drive using GParted. That way I *know* there is *nothing* on the drive, after that I then proceed to do the fresh install using the Custom Install, with Custom Partitions. Do yourself a favour and make sure all the partitions are set up as ext4 partitions. An alternative here is once you have used GParted and reformated the entire drive, during the install if you don't want to go the the Custom partition route you can allow the machine to do it using LVM -- it does not matter now as you already have a "clean" reformated drive to start with, whereas if the disk is full... you might get an error message such as the one you are getting.
In other words the first thing you need to do is to erase the data on the drive before you can create new partitions. If you know the CentOS install program upside down and sideways, go that route; otherwise use GParted to first erase the current partitions and then reformat the drive.
Again set it up to use a Legacy BIOS, NOT UEFI.