uninstalling fedora

[thatguy2500]

Just thought I'd give linux a try so I took the plunge with Fedora. To make a long story short, I installed it incorrectly and cant boot from my windows xp cd to uninstall fedora. In fact, I think I partitoned on top of Windows Xp. Obviously thats not good, but no worries, I made the leap of faith with linux after a fresh install of xp, so no info on the hard drive was lost. What I need though is to reinstall xp so I can uninstall fediora. Whats taking place is, I boot from the windows xp cd, and all it does is initialize the hardware configuration, then hangs there in a black screen. Any tips on how to wipe fedora would be appreciated.

[tech_man]

Can you boot from the Fedora CD?

[thatguy2500]

the fedora cd I have is from the Llinux for Dummies book Knoppix cd which is included in the book.

[tech_man]

Can you boot the computer with it?

[thatguy2500]

yes, but unless the knoppix cd gives me an option to wipe fedora from the hard drive (which I've already looked at), its not going to do me much good.

[tech_man]

Boot up knoppix and go to the terminal. Login as root and type "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda" this will wipe the entire drive.

EDIT: BTW if you are going to install Fedora make sure it is the newest version which is 6. FC6

[thatguy2500]

I'll give it a shot. thanks.

[devils casper]

i am sure tech_man's suggestion will work.
just a side note, you can use Fedora Installation CD too.







Casper

[thatguy2500]

just a quick question before I attempt this ... how do I login as root from my knoppix cd? I loaded up the knoppix cd last night and wasn't able to locate where I might be able to do so.

[devils casper]

execute 'su' in terminal to gain root privileges.







Casper