[TriLUG] Next Generation...

[Darrell Sandiford]

Thanks John, You Da' man!,

Just one final question for you,

Since I've tried to blow away this partition in both Linux and DOS, how 
do I execute that command line that you sent me?, There is no bootable 
OS so to speak, only that stupid "Grub" app prompt ( grub> ). Do I 
implement this at the Grub prompt? There was no important data to be 
lost so I'm wide open to do whatever I want with this system. How do I 
input this command w/o an OS on board? Thanks again,

Darrell

John Beimler wrote:
> Darrell Sandiford wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I just recently had fun going from RedHat 8.0 to 9.0. Getting the 
>> ISO's was a pain, but once I got the disc made, installation was a 
>> snap. NOW, I would like to take this RH9 system and make it a dual 
>> boot system with
>> RH9 and windows XP. Is there a was to completely fdisk, remove, get 
>> rid of the RH9 install, (including the Grub app.) start over with a 
>> cleared & clean hard disk and do the dual boot installation?, Again, 
>> the main thing that I want to get past is clearing out the hard drive 
>> so I can split\partition it down the middle and install my OS's. Thanks.
> 
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/diskname bs=1k count=1
> 
> will do it for you.  Partition table, and grub will be gone.  As well as 
> any access to your data, so be careful.
> 
> Peace.
> 
> john
> 
> 
> 
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