Now the system is as-is from IBM, so that means it has Windows XP partitions on it and the hard disk has already been partitioned.
Could the problem be that I have to somehow kill those partitions first? Or do I do that inside the install (drop to a shell and do it, perhaps?)
Any help would be appreciated on this ... all of the How-tos that I can find via Google and Linux-laptops.net and tuxmobil.com all basically talk about installing Debian via TFTP and PXE, and I would really not like to go that process....
Moe
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Hello all,
I'm a relatively new user who has been learning Linux and Debian by experimenting with a test machine I've set up. Like many newbies, I've gone in over my head--installing backports, trying my hand at compiling my own kernel, etc.
I've now hosed things a bit in a couple of places, and I'd like to start afresh with a perfectly clean woody installation--wiping out all of my config files, reinstalling all packages from stable debs.
Is there a good way to do this, short of reinstalling from scratch?
In short, what I want to do is "apt-get make-debian-look-the-way-it-did-right-after-I-finished-installing" or something similar.
Is such a magic bullet possible, or should I just go ahead and reinstall? (This is a test machine, so there's nothing too critical on it--just a few 10s of gigs of MP3 files I'd have to reload.)
Thanks,
Charles.
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