Installing over XP/ ME

[William Lindley]

--- Carl Parrish <cparrish@cox.net> wrote:
> Okay does anyone have any sources with tips and tricks of how to...
> blow away the partition table.

Fire up the Linux bootable business card (or a Mandrake boot/install disk,
or Tom's Root-Boot, etc) and from the # prompt:

  # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1

That zeroes the boot sector and erases the partition table.

If the drive previously had Disk Manager, you'll first have to do this at
the LILO prompt:

  LILO> linux hda=noremap

which says not to do Disk Manager remapping for /dev/hda.

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