First time install with LaCie original disk

[alphatier]

I'm a little bit confused after reading installation manuals, so I just want to make it clear for me - it is actually possible to use console app to install the firmware to LaCie CloudBox with original disk? Or it is necessary to remove partitions prior to installing?

[fvdw]

you could delete them first and choose the option "new disk" in the installer.
If it has an ms-dos partition table you can use before running the installer script use the linux command

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fdisk /dev/sda

and then in fdisk the command d to delete all the partitions and then the command w to write the new table to disk.
if it is a gpt partiton table use the command

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gdisk /dev/sda

and use the d, w and finally answer Y on the last question

to viw partiton table use the p command in either gdisk or fdisk

[alphatier]

you could delete them first and choose the option "new disk" in the installer.
If it has an ms-dos partition table you can use before running the installer script use the linux command
...
if it is a gpt partiton table use the command

I'm sorry for being lame, but how could these different options appear? I mean that I have a brand new Lacie Cloudbox 2TB out of the box. I don't know which partition table does it have by default, but I guess it is not ms-dos, right?
So my question is what is the simpliest default way for me to install your firmware? Do I need to run the commands you mentioned myself, or the installer can delete and recreate the partitions on its own?

Thanks in advance!

[fvdw]

in case of the cloudbox I advise to do it manually.

I expect it is GPT table

You can try easy to see if has ms-dos or gpt partiton table, just do

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gdisk -l /dev/sda

you will output like this

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root@(none):/ # gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.5

Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 3907029168 sectors, 1.8 TiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 48EB39C7-FA39-4315-9B4C-B7E4FE438E83
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 3907029134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)


Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048            4095   1024.0 KiB  EF02  grub_core      fvdw: ef02 is bios boot partition
   2            4096          397311   192.0 MiB   8300  boot_rescue    fvdw: 8300 linux file system
   3          397312          399359   1024.0 KiB  8300  nv_data   fvdw: 8300 linux file system
   4          399360         3545087   1.5 GiB     FD00  root_1      fvdw: fd00 Linux raid
   5         3545088         6690815   1.5 GiB     FD00  root_2
   6         6690816         8787967   1024.0 MiB  FD00  var
   7         8787968         9312255   256.0 MiB   FD00  swap
   8         9312256      3907029134   1.8 TiB     FD00  user_data

Notice the line mentioning it is GPT table.