Hello,

I have a Dell Lattitude 3310 that I'm trying to install CentOS 7 on. It has Windows 10 installed by default. During the installation process, I receive an error message stating the following:

"Checking storage configuration...
You have not defined a root partition (/), which is required for installation of CentOS to continue.
No valid boot loader target device found. See below for details.
For a UEFI installation, you must include an EFI System Partition on a GPT-formatted disk, mounted at /boot/efi.
You have not specified a swap partition. Although not strictly required in all cases, it will significantly improve performance on most installations.

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Not enough space in file systems for the current software selection. An additional 2791.4 MiB is needed.
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I have secure boot disabled. What else would I need to do? I tried booting into CentOS as a "rescue disk" to partition the drive(s), but the main hard drive wasn't even visible, in any of the diagnostic or partitioning tools (fdisk, lsblk, df).


Edit / Update: I tried installing Ubuntu and got an error message saying that I would need to disable "Intel Rapid Storage Technology". I looked up instructions that said I could do so by going into the BIOS and switching from RAID mode to AHCI mode, but now when I try loading the CentOS installer, I get a kernel panic error / stack trace readout.

Your problem appears that you have no free space for the install.

If you are intending to dual boot you will need to (from windows) use the disk manager and reduce the size of the ntfs partitions to allow space for the install. You then can install in the freed up space. instructions can easily be found here or by searching for "how to install centos 7 on windows 10 dual boot"

If you are intending to replace windows you can with a live USB use parted or gparted to remove all the windows partitions and then install as the only OS on the disk.

I booted with a live USB of Linux and wiped the internal hard drive (shred). I still get the same error(s) when trying to install using both RAID and AHCI mode(s). RAID = "boot / disk errors", AHCI = "kernel panic / stack trace readout". Interestingly, I haven't had issues with Debian / Ubuntu based distros.

During the installation, you have to configure the installation destination; see screenshot at https://docs.centos.org/en-US/centos...geSpoke-ppc64/. What do you configure at this stage?

You have to define a root partition. Some installers make this easier than others. Evidently CentOS does not do it automatically.