installing to a wiped disk

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 08:47:49AM -0500, John G Heim wrote:
> I have some machines that will PXE boot if the hard disk is not
> bootable. Usually, I make that so by writing zeros to the first
> million blocks. "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=1000000".
> 
> [Note, I know that a million blocks is way more than necessary.]
> 
> -- But that appears to cause a problem for setup-storage. It errors
> out if there is no partition table on the disk. Is there a way to
> get setup-storage to create a partition table?

That must be a problem with your disk_config - I'm sometimes using
the same trick... Can you show some detailts to the list?

Cheers,
 S