[lug] Installation Guidance Request

[Charlie Rose]

To everyone kind enough to reply to my Request for Guidance ... there is 
one thing I neglected to mention. I am NOT going to install Linux next to 
Windows. I don't want to deal with those complications right now. I 
acquired a computer that will be dedicated to Linux, and although Windows 
2000 happens to be on the machine now, I plan to be rid of it and all other 
files that happen to be there.

There is only one partition on the hard drive, and I gather I can just 
install Mandrake 9.0 splat on top of everything, thereby wiping out 
anything that's already there. I don't think I even have to format the hard 
drive. Is that right?
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Charlie Rose               FAX: 303-545-6674
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