At Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:24:19 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > Have a quad core workstation that was running WinXP_64 that I want to > blow away and install CentOS 6. C6 install process finds raid metadata > associated with sda and sdb, and then excludes them from the rest of the > installation process. > > There doesn't appear to be an option for disassembling the raid as part > of the install process. I think there should be. > > Any tricks to removing/by-passing the soft raid left over from the > previous OS? Is this pure WinXP_64 software RAID or BIOS-assisted 'fakeraid'? If the latter, go into the BIOS and change its settings from 'RAID' to 'AHCI' or other 'native' SATA mode. The only other thought would be to use a Live CD to clobber the disks (eg using fdisk or 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda' or something). It might also be possible to get to a shell process with Alt-F2 in the installer and using fdisk, etc. to clobber the disks -- do this *before* screen where it asks about partitioning, etc. > > Dave M > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments