philip what he means is directly boot from cdrom which most new bios allows.
you are provided with bare minimum linux.( in slackware distos. at least )
you can use fdisk of linux there to delete and create all partitions.
alternatively, rat hat installation provides choices of deleting partitions during
its installation process.
and red hat boots directly from CD.
sushil.
Philip S Tellis wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
>
> > Aren't the first two commands unnecessary? Linux fdisk is good enough to
> > do the deleting of all partitions. I sent this message earlier, but it
> > bounced :(.
> >
>
> Err, it didn't seem like the original poster had linux installed anywhere.
> He had Win98 / FAT32 and WinNT / NTFS
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