[TriLUG] Next Generation...

[Darrell Sandiford]

Thanks Jeremy & sorry if I was a little impatient earlier. I will try to 
be a lot more understanding and appreciative of the folks out there :)

D-

Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> Well if there's no useable OS on the machine now, then there's no really
> reason to run the command that John provided.  Just start installing
> whatever new operating system you want (either Windows or Linux;
> generally it's best to install Windows first but be sure to leave
> unpartitioned space for Windows).
> 
> To answer your question directly, though, you can use the rescue mode
> environment on the Red Hat Linux boot CD -- just boot from the CD and
> type "linux rescue" at the prompt.
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
> On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 14:12, Darrell Sandiford wrote:
> 
>>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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