Bug 75449

Summary:	Wont initialize a new hard drive
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <cshoell>
Component:	parted	Assignee:	Matt Wilson <msw>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	8.0
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Description Need Real Name 2002-10-08 18:13:26 UTC

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Description of problem:
When installer RH8 the installer cant add a partition if the drive has never 
been initialized for anytype of OS

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Attach a new drive with no OS 
2.Try to install RH8
3.
	

Additional info:

Would prevent a newbie type user from being able to install RH8

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-10-09 15:35:08 UTC

If the drive has no partition table, you should get asked if you want to
initialize the disk.  Is this not the behavior you saw?

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2002-10-09 15:59:24 UTC

Yes that is correct.  It couldnt initialize the drive and rebooted.  It did the 
samething more than once to me.  Finally I threw in an old dos6.22 floopy boot 
disk with fdisk.  Did an fdisk on the drive.  Created a 2048 partition.  Then 
reloaded RH8.  Was able to now see a Fat partition on the drive.  Deleted it.  
Then was able to install RH8 because the drive was initialized.

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2004-06-25 18:39:19 UTC

Should be happier with newer releases.