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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
      last edited by

      You appear to be booted into the RAID array. Your root filesystem is located there.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
        last edited by

        You are running from the RAID, as @Dashrender hypothesized, not from the USB stick.

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        • DustinB3403D
          DustinB3403
          last edited by

          hrm... that's very odd....

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403
            last edited by

            I performed the identical installation as I have previously, and the OS was installed to the USB drive.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
              last edited by

              @DustinB3403 said:

              hrm... that's very odd....

              Who knows what the storage looks like now that a new partition has been created over top of the filesystem that was there before.

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403
                last edited by

                But it does make sense now 🙂

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403
                  last edited by

                  I'm not concerned with the data on the RAID.

                  I just want it corrected. Installed to the USB drive, and running from said USB. While having the local RAID 10 array for VM storage.

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403
                    last edited by

                    I'll be back, going to reinstall!

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403
                      last edited by

                      Now performing the install yet again, I see the key difference with the installer.

                      The initial screen (for what ever reason) was only installing to the local spinning rust array, rather than the 8GB Drive.

                      I found a 16GB and restarted the installation, at which point it listed 2 devices to chose from to install Xen too.

                      Wow I wished I noticed that before hand lol

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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403
                        last edited by

                        And we are back in action!

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                        • mlnewsM
                          mlnews
                          last edited by

                          Sweet!

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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender
                            last edited by

                            Did you find out why you only saw that the RAID and not the USB for installation?

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                            • DustinB3403D
                              DustinB3403
                              last edited by DustinB3403

                              I did, it appears (and I've seen it before but hadn't even thought about it) that unless you are performing a custom installation with a install directory of less than 16GB, the ISO will only list the local drives that meet this criteria and attempt to install to local disk rather than the USB.

                              Re-purposing a 32GB thumb drive (formatted to FAT32) and there were than 2 installation choices.

                              With anything less than 16GB it just by passes the "choice" of where to install to. Performing an Advance installation you can circumvent this imposed limit. But it was built in for log space etc.

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                              • stacksofplatesS
                                stacksofplates
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                                What USB drive did you use? I tried installing XenServer on a USB and when I went to boot it up, it seemed like it was going to take about 4 years. So I just installed it locally again.

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                                • DustinB3403D
                                  DustinB3403
                                  last edited by

                                  The exact can be found here that I used to reinstall too.

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