[NTLUG:Discuss] Formatting hard drive

MadHat madhat at unspecific.com
Mon Dec 22 12:58:30 CST 2003


On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 12:41, Philip Stetz wrote:
> I was in the middle of doing a clean install of RH 9
> and had a huge change of heart ... deciding to dump RH
> in favor of Suse.  I basically got as far as deleting
> the partitions and starting to install grub.  No big
> deal, I have backed up everything anyways.
> 
> So now I would like to wipe everything off my hard
> drive (including MBR) and start over from scratch. 
> Anyone know of any good tools I can use to create a
> boot floppy and reformat my drive with?

It is part of the install process.  Why not just use the options
included with the install to do it?

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MadHat at Unspecific.com
`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here...'
   -- Lewis Carroll - _Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland_




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