Re: Formatting the hard drive....

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Bryan E. Thompson wrote:
> List,
>
> Hi, this may be an obvious answer once I finish downloading all of the 
> redhat images and burn the CD's BUT - I currently have a laptop with 
> Micro$oft XP on it and I want to wipe the drive(s) and install redhat on 
> the computer. When I start up from the redhat CD will there be an 
> initilization tool or do I need to do something first? I'm guessing I'll 
> have about five hours of download time left when I get into the office 
> and I'd like to prepare the computer as much as possible before then.

First off, make sure you burn the CDs properly.  See:

	html://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#making_cds

for more info.

If you burned the CDs correctly, you should be able to boot off the
first CD and the installer will walk you through the process.  Make
sure you tell the installer to use the "grub" boot loader and have it
installed to /dev/hda (the MBR).
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