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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:54:36 +0200
From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:39:12AM +0200, Pierrick Brossin wrote:
> Quoting Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>:
> 
> > Zero the first blocks of that disk.
> > sysinstall might get confused by non alpha contents and not offer you
> > the drive.
> 
> OK I'll try this tonight!
> 
> I thought fdisking to remove the partition would be OK but I forgot the MBR.
> You're talking about the MBR right ?

You still have an fdisk table on the disk - just without partitions.
In fact I don't know what detail sysinstall confuses - if I would then
it should be easier to fix.

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B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
ticso@bwct.de                                  info@bwct.de