Foundations Installation with Used Disk

Hello,

Please refer to the following article for more information:

www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21387047

Thanks,

Lorrie Barber

Information Development, IBM Lotus Foundations

I had to reinstall on a Dell 4300 with the old Foundations install key still on the disks. I was able to go into the BIOS of the controller and do a format that cleaned all partition information completely.

On boot up Foundations recognized the disks as clean and new!

If you can boot the drives to DOS and do an Fdisk /MBR you will rewrite the Master Boot Record and force Foundations to see it as a new drive.

booted with an 2003 installer disk works fine,

but there must be a Sles comand to do this (on a third party server)

You can completely remove existing partitions by attaching a hard drive to a pc and using a Windows utility such as fdisk or third party programs such as Partition Magic or the open source Partition Logic (partitionlogic.org.uk). You may also be able to boot to a DOS floppy on your third party hardware and delete partitions with fdisk.

I don't presently have a Net Integrator or IBM hardware, so I don't know if the same issue would apply there. If anyone is able to experiment with official hardware please let me know the results and we can add it here.

a want to restart the installation on used disk, if zotting doesn't work , ? is there an other way?