Setup_storage driving me nuts

[Geoff Shang]

Hi,

Excuse me jumping on the mailing list and posting immediately, but this is 
driving me crazy and I'm about at the end of my rope.  And of course, this is 
a machine that's needed yesterday.

First, hardware is not my strength, and I don't know much about the ins and 
outs of MSDOS vs GPT, etc.  But I figure part of the point of setup_storage is 
that we don't need to - it should just do the right thing.

I'm trying to install a machine that has 6 spinning disks in a 12 TB hardware 
RAID5 array plus 4 500 GB stand-alone SSDs.  The SSDs will be for data only 
while the 12 TB array (which is much bigger than what is needed) will have the 
OS and /home.

Here's my disk_config for this machine:

disk_config /dev/sda disklabel:msdos
primary -        0-      -    -

disk_config /dev/sdb disklabel:msdos
primary -        0-      -    -

disk_config /dev/sdc disklabel:msdos
primary -        0-      -    -

disk_config /dev/sdd disklabel:msdos
primary -        0-      -    -


disk_config /dev/sde disklabel:gpt bootable:1
primary /boot        1G      - -
primary /        100G     -    -
primary swap     32G      swap   sw
primary /usr        100G      -    -
primary /var        100G     - -
primary /home        0-      - -


I tried both MSDOS and GPT for the SSD disks but it made no difference.

first problem:

Executing: parted -s /dev/sdc mkpart primary "" 1048576B 511570853375B
Command had non-zero exit code
Error in task partition. Code: 710
Traceback: task_error task_partition task task_install task task_action task 
main
$LOGUSER is undefined. Not saving log files to remote.
FATAL ERROR. Installation stopped.
root at host:/# parted -s /dev/sdc mkpart primary "" 1048576B 511570853375B
Error: You requested a partition from 1049kB to 512GB.
The closest location we can manage is 1048kB to 1048kB.

this actually happened on sdd first, so I commented it out and got the same 
with sdc which you see here.

Since the SSDs will be for data and can be setup post-installation, I tried 
commenting them out entirely.

Second problem:

Executing: mkswap  /dev/sde3
Command had non-zero exit code
Error in task partition. Code: 710
Traceback: task_error task_partition task task_install task task_action task 
main
$LOGUSER is undefined. Not saving log files to remote.
FATAL ERROR. Installation stopped.
root at host:/# mkswap  /dev/sde3
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 33554428 KiB
no label, UUID=45d81993-fbfc-41ab-ac33-a2bce711001d
root at host:/# echo $?
0

As you can see, the command it appeared to choke on ran just fine.  So perhaps 
the command before was the one to generate the error:

root at host:/# parted -s /dev/sde mkpart primary "" 357557075968B 12000138608127B
Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.


I'm clearly missing something and I'm desperately in search of enlightenment. 
Any help anyone can provide will be gratefully received.

Thanks,
Geoff.