On Tuesday 27 August 2002 04:28, Richard Bradshaw wrote: > I am hoping to be able to dd zeros to the drive in order to > wipe out weird partition info that causes the regular kickstart install > to prompt the user about bad partition information, I'd try it and see. A useful workaround would be a boot floppy especially for this task. I think I'd use freedos and a debug script run from autoexec.bat. Mainly because freedos will boot off floppy faster. -- Cheers John. Please, no off-list mail. You will fall foul of my spam treatment. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb