[pchelpers] Re: Formating HDD without floppy

You may be right. It varies with different flavours of linux. Here is a 
site that might provide help on the Linux side of it:
http://www.askthebrain.com/boot_disk_linux-.html
Note: Linux format differs from those used by Windows.

Judy & Lindsay Roberts wrote:

>But, as I understand it, the drive has to be formatted even before linux can
>install.  I have Ubuntu Linux latest release which I want to put on it, but
>has to have formatted HDD first, as I understand.
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>>Not from a CD, but if you slave the drive to another operating system,
>>you can do it there. PS: There is a Linux bootable CD that boots up its
>>own operating system, if you like Linux.
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