> is there a way (out of bios maybe) to init a new drive? i can't imagine > that you would have to start installing solaris just to get a drive "ready" > to install linux. > > is this already documented and i just missed it? I believe what you're looking for is the 's' option in fdisk, which "create a new empty Sun disklabel". I recently bought two 4.3g disks for my SS10 that were previously used in a RAID array and had to do this...