How do you take Linux off of a hard drive?

OK, I am now confused. I thought that the drive you wanted to wipe clean was the SCSI drive. What I am seeing is this:

hda1, hda2, hda5 are all partitions on the Master IDE drive on the Primary IDE bus.

sda1 is the first partition on the "first" drive on the SCSI bus.

So, what is it exactly that you want to do? What will the desired end result look like?

Please fill in:
hda1 = ____________
hda2 = ____________
hda5 = ____________
sda1 = ____________

If you want to make a file system on hda5, do this command:
mkfs -t vfat -c /dev/hda5
to make a fat32 filesystem in that partition.

If I misunderstand what you want, please fill in the table above.

Alan

-------Original Message-------
From: Michael Havens <bmike1@vei.net>
Sent: 05/05/03 02:40 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: How do you take Linux off of a hard drive?

>
> here is what knoppix says my computer looks like...
hda1 is windows
hda2 says that size = n/a and full = n/a so I don't care about that one
hda5 is Linux
sda1 is windows
When I first installed Linux I left a section to put /windows on (hda1).
The second one and the SCSI I put Linux on.
Now I have decided that I aint smart enuf for Linux so I put Windos back
onto my box and, with the aid of the Mandrake disks, made sda1 msdos
format.
(I thought that was hda5 initially but discovered what it really was with
knoppix.
I have a Linux refrence book and in it is the instructions to create a
file
system with "mkfs". I could attempt to make the filesystem on my own with
this information but I don't want to screw things up. Because of that I
will
ask the all-knowing PLUG list what I should do.
mkfs -t msdos -c /dev/hda5
or
mkfs -t fat32 -c /dev/hda5
or what?

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