CentOS 6.3 x86_64 wants to install on physical disk?

Discussions about using Linux guests in VirtualBox.
Post Reply
RokShox
Posts: 4
Joined: 9. Mar 2013, 00:11

CentOS 6.3 x86_64 wants to install on physical disk?

Post by RokShox »

Context

CentOS 6.3 x86_64 netinstall
VirtualBox 4.2.8
Windows 7 Pro host

Problem

During the netinstall, after loading the remote image and starting the graphical installation, the installer wants to configure the disk.

However, the disk that is presented appears to be my physical hard drive and not the 50 GB virtual drive I provisioned!

See attached screenshot. Note it says

ATA VBOX HARDDISK
51200.0 MB pci-0000:00:01.1-scsi-0:0:0:0

Very worried it's going to wipe out my host system's drive if I proceed. Is this normal?
screenshot of "Storage Device Warning"
screenshot of "Storage Device Warning"
waa.png (49.18 KiB) Viewed 897 times
RokShox
Posts: 4
Joined: 9. Mar 2013, 00:11

Re: CentOS 6.3 x86_64 wants to install on physical disk?

Post by RokShox »

Please delete this stupid post.

I read 51200.0 MB as 512 GB, the approximate size of my physical disk.

Duh. Math is hard.
Post Reply