Issue with reinstall live image to same disk

[David Highley]

"David Highley wrote:"
> 
> Installed Fedora 21 live image to disk. Now we want to reinstall to the
> same disk but it does not show up in the storage selection. Wiped
> partitions with fdisk hoping that would make it work. Next cat'd file to
> raw device to wipe or corrupt the MBR. Still no joy. How in H do you get
> the live image installer to find the disk you want to install to? Bye
> the way this is not a new issue as we have run into this problem in the
> past but never found a solution to it. We always had to go to another
> install method which is very painful and time consuming.

Figured it out. There was a command wipefs we did not know about which
got us part way there, but not quite all the way. After doing a wipefs
-af, forced all the device would show up in the selection and we could
configure partitioning but then the install would crash. The device is
raid 1 SSD and the raid was corrupted by the wipe so we had to use the
bios raid utility to delete and recreate the raid.

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