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Yep - a MS os wont care what is on the hd - it will just take it all and load 
itself onto it.

On Friday 22 March 2002 15:25, you wrote:
> Thanks for the response.  My goal here is to have a machine (now running
> Linux and with an unknown password) with a new OS on it (will not have
> Linux on the machine when I am finished).  I hope to install Windows 2000
> from the CD that I have here.  My question is:  Is there a way to boot from
> the new OS CD without knowing the password for the Linux system?  Thanks. 
> Jack ----- Original Message -----
>   From: lynn.newton@cox.net
>   To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us ;
> plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:00 PM
>   Subject: Re: help with new OS
>
>
>
>   I have two machines with Linux running and I am a complete newbie to
> Lunix.  Really a newbie, assume nothing about any prior knowledge.  I need
> only one machine to learn more about Linux.  One is running just fine, the
> other is another story. I cannot login.  I do not know the password for
> this machine and need to log in to the machine since I want to install a
> different OS.  Is there a way to get to the area where I can login and
> start to install the new OS?  Thanks.  Jack <<<<
>
>   If you mean you're going to install it from scratch,
>   then just blow it away. You install from a bootable
>   CD (usually).
>
>   If you mean you are upgrading the system from a prior release, you can
> probably still do that, although you might have trouble mounting the
> filesystems after booting off the CD if you didn't shutdown cleanly, and
> you'll definitely have a problem getting back on the system after the
>   upgrade. One way or another you or someone else has
>   to know the password. (There *are* ways around that,
>   but that's a discussion for another thread.)
>
>
>
>
>   Lynn David Newton
>   Phoenix, Arizona
>
>
>
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>
>   I have two machines with Linux running and I am a complete newbie to
> Lunix.  Really a newbie, assume nothing about any prior knowledge.  I need
> only one machine to learn more about Linux.  One is running just fine, the
> other is another story. I cannot login.  I do not know the password for
> this machine and need to log in to the machine since I want to install a
> different OS.  Is there a way to get to the area where I can login and
> start to install the new OS?  Thanks.  Jack

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Freedom is worth preserving
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