Author Topic: wipe hard drive (Read 15710 times)

smb2004 · « **on:** June 21, 2004, 02:13:53 AM »

i'm tring to get into linux, i have xp and suse 9.1 on this machine, but am thinking about switching distros. first what distro does everyone else like? im thinking about fedora core. second, i have suse 9.0 on an old machine, i want to wipe the hard drive, in order to install the new distro to see if i want to drop suse on my main machine in favor of the new one. i know how to use fdisk, but how do i do it on linux? will the new distro have a utility built in during install to do it?

dragoncity99 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 21, 2004, 03:54:19 PM »

Fedora Core is a quite user friendly tool for me. Maybe im very used to Red Hat Linux hahaha.

Well, if use Fedora, it's like some "Next---Next---Next" installation". Do u mean windows fdisk?). Ur life is much easier now as there is a tool called Disk Druid which is almost similar to Partition Magic. It's a menu based disk partitioning tool.

smb2004 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 21, 2004, 08:04:10 PM »

i will give disk dtuid a try, any other suggestions beside fc?

dragoncity99 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 22, 2004, 02:44:42 AM »

U can try to use Mandrake as well

Or even Lindows.

So far i have used Mandrake, RedHat/Fedora Core, Slackware, Topologi Linux, and Knoppix.

For me i prefer Mandrake, Redhat/FC, and Slackware. For GUI intensive users i still suggest u stick with Mandrake and FC.

neo · « **Reply #4 on:** July 07, 2004, 04:39:22 PM »

Well in Linux also there is fdisk just type fdisk /dev/hda if your hdd is a primary master then then type m for help and you will be able to manage it.............

dragoncity99 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 08, 2004, 07:15:33 AM »

For really to install and u dont want to bother about installltion details, use "Colllege Linux"