[TriLUG] Next Generation...

[John Beimler]

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