[CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE

Wed Jan 28 17:53:06 UTC 2009
RobertH <roberth at abbacomm.net>

 

> Hi,
> 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.
> Regards,
> David

thank you for all that responded.

the disk appeared wiped and without partitions..., yet it wasnt and even
though it would allow me to partition it, the software install did not want
to play ball with a disk that did not have a partitiion removed even though
you could not see it so to speak.

the machines are screamerssssssssssss...

thanks again

 -rh