help with new OS

Yep - a MS os wont care what is on the hd - it will just take it all and load
itself onto it.

On Friday 22 March 2002 15:25, you wrote:
> Thanks for the response. My goal here is to have a machine (now running
> Linux and with an unknown password) with a new OS on it (will not have
> Linux on the machine when I am finished). I hope to install Windows 2000
> from the CD that I have here. My question is: Is there a way to boot from
> the new OS CD without knowing the password for the Linux system? Thanks.
> Jack ----- Original Message -----
> From: lynn.newton@cox.net
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us ;
> plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:00 PM
> Subject: Re: help with new OS
>
>
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> I have two machines with Linux running and I am a complete newbie to
> Lunix. Really a newbie, assume nothing about any prior knowledge. I need
> only one machine to learn more about Linux. One is running just fine, the
> other is another story. I cannot login. I do not know the password for
> this machine and need to log in to the machine since I want to install a
> different OS. Is there a way to get to the area where I can login and
> start to install the new OS? Thanks. Jack <<<<
>
> If you mean you're going to install it from scratch,
> then just blow it away. You install from a bootable
> CD (usually).
>
> If you mean you are upgrading the system from a prior release, you can
> probably still do that, although you might have trouble mounting the
> filesystems after booting off the CD if you didn't shutdown cleanly, and
> you'll definitely have a problem getting back on the system after the
> upgrade. One way or another you or someone else has
> to know the password. (There *are* ways around that,
> but that's a discussion for another thread.)
>
>
>
>
> Lynn David Newton
> Phoenix, Arizona
>
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> I have two machines with Linux running and I am a complete newbie to
> Lunix. Really a newbie, assume nothing about any prior knowledge. I need
> only one machine to learn more about Linux. One is running just fine, the
> other is another story. I cannot login. I do not know the password for
> this machine and need to log in to the machine since I want to install a
> different OS. Is there a way to get to the area where I can login and
> start to install the new OS? Thanks. Jack

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