On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Yasha Karant wrote:

> I have to install SL 6.1 on a WD hard drive that uses a larger than 512
> block.
>
> I plan to burn the bootable 4 Gbyte base SL 6.1 installation DVD from an
> ISO image.
>
> 1.  On a running 6.1 system that can see the unmounted raw target hard
> drive (via eSATA -- but it appears to be a regular SATA drive so far as
> the OS is concerned as /dev/sde ) and on which I have a DVD
> reader/burner -- can I have anaconda from the DVD install the OS on the

Please clarify "and on which I have a DVD reader/burner"

> unmounted raw target?

The installer does not care about mounted drives as they are not mounted
when the installer runs.

>
> 2.  If not, and I have multiple drives that I do not want touched, do I
> simply boot the SL 6.1 bootable install DVD and then have anaconda,
> etc., ignore all drives but the target one?  If this is the case, how do
> I do so?

There is a option to disable drives but I would not trust it.
DO NOT pick autopartitioning . Pick custom and choose wisely.

>
> 3.  Must I force anaconda, etc., to use a larger block size on the
> target disk that is a Western Digital Advanced Format Hard Drive or will
> this happen automatically?

What does TUV documentation have on this topic?

>
> Yasha Karant
>

-Connie Sieh