Disk Utility will wipe EVERYTHING on that drive. No partition will remain untouched so you're fine in that regard (and, FYI, yaboot is stored in its own mini-partition).
Eric. On 7/2/05, The Comlink Management Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm wanting to completely reformat my hard disk deleting every operating > system installed including Yellow Dog Linux. At the moment I'm running a duel > boot system with MacOS X on one partition and Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 on the > other. My friend has told me that using MacOS X's Disk Utility program to > format the hard disk will successfully erase all the contents of both the > MacOS X and the Yellow Dog partition as well as the partitions themselves. My > question is, is the Yaboot bootloader program (the program which allows me to > select which operating system to use) stored on the Linux OS partition, or is > it stored on one of the many special hidden partitions that Macs have at the > beginning of their drives, such as the boot strap? My worry is that if Yaboot > is stored on one of these special hidden partitions that MacOS X's disk > utility won't erase it. If this is the case, how do I safely remove any trace > of Yaboot from my computer? _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
