My hard drive is divided into 2 partitions: one with win 2000, one
w/linux red hat 9. I want to 1) remove the partitions, and 2)
re-install linux on the whole system. I thought I remembered that when
I installed red hat originally it asked me about re-partitioning at
the time (?). However, when I try to re-install red hat now from the
cd, it just gives me the dual boot screen that I normally get. BTW, I
am a newbie! Anyway, I would preferably like to do this w/out
purchasing additional software if possible.

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 03 Aug 2005 18:30 PDT

bigsticks...

If you are accessing your normal dual-boot screen,
it seems likely that the CD is not being accessed
as the boot device. You need to go into your BIOS
and make sure the CD player is set to boot before
your hard drive. Most BIOS have a page where you
can adjust the priority of your boot devices, so
that you can boot from floppy or CD before the 
system attempts to access the hard drives.

BIOS means Basic Input-Output System, and it's
essentially a mini operating system that allows
your system to interface with your hard drive or
other boot devices. Many can be accessed by just
pressing the F2 key early in the boot up process.

If you need further help with this, let me know...

sublime1-ga

im very sure that since you want to delete windows and linux and start
from scratch, you can do this. almost every linux distrobution
includes a partition manager such like cfdisk. during install it
should prompt about edition the table then just tell it to either do
it automatically or take control of the disk. And when you said it
would just go to the dual boot screen, that is because your bios is
not set in the correct boot order. i would reccomend this boot order.
1.floppy 2. cdrom 3.hard disk 0. with it set to boot from cd before
the HDD, this will make it boot from the cd into the redhat install.
with all of this said, i would like to say i do NOT reccomend redhat.
it is old and outdated and is no longer supported. i would reccomend
you to go to www.distrowatch.com and try out different distros, to
your likings. i use ubuntu you may find that very easy to use. but if
you would like redhat, redhat has been cut off and the distro called
Fedora is exactly redhat just it has a different name.

this is the answer to your question, just i couldnt figure out to
answer and not comment.

your welcome,

slipaway172