On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, HILL,ANDY (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > Howdy, all! > > When my kickstart installer encounters a brand-spanking-new drive (no > Windoze or Linux pre-installed), I get the following message: > > "The partition table on device sda was unreadable. To create new > partitions it must be initialized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on this > drive. > > Would you like to initialize this drive? > > YES NO" > > Works fine (totally hands-off) as long as there are pre-existing partitions > on the disk. > > While this isn't a show-stopper, it requires manual intervention. I'd like > some way to force the initialization of the drive. Any ideas? and while i'm thinking about it, there's also a zerombr yes directive, which allegedly will initialize "invalid" partition tables. one would think that a non-existent partition table would qualify as invalid. i'm curious what eventually solves your problem. rday
