John D Groenveld wrote:
> In article <44c951a2$0$26356$baae4c71@news.mindlink.net>,
> John <sun_powered@cmaaccess.com> wrote:
>> I'm thinking I should use Solaris 9's 'fdisk' to remove the current
>> existing partitions, then try to install SLES 9.
>
> You can use dd(1) from your SLES media to zero the bits where the
> fdisk table resides.
>
> On Solaris,
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0 bs=1
>
> BTW why are you migrating from Solaris 9?
> John
> groenveld@acm.org
>
>

Thanks, John! While you were sending your reply, I answered your
question in a long reply to Rich Teer.

FYI, only migrating this one machine due to what best supports the x86
architecture. All the Sun SPARC machines (servers AND workstations) will
continue running Solaris. :-)

John
sun_powered@cmaaccess.com