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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 ?

Thanks

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