[CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Wed Jan 28 08:22:44 UTC 2009
David Hrbác wrote:
> are those disks totally empty or there are some partitions? Try to look
> at them with fdisk. BTW sometimes Anaconda fails on disks with
> partitions. Deleting partitions helps before install, sometimes I have
> to "create a new empty DOS partition table" with fdisk
or my old standby, boot the centos cd to single user mode, and execute
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1024
this zeros the first megabyte of the disk, wiping all traces of
partition tables. power cycle to clear the state of -everything-,
*then* boot the installer...
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