It turned out the reason I couldn't get the installation to work off of the CDs was because of the fact that grub was still on my hard drive (although I know not how, because I did everything I could to re-partition the drive). I just ended up parftitioning the drive using the PowerMax utility from maxtor.com that Paul and Jake recommended. (I agree, it's a great tool.)
Thanks guys!
Tom
Jake Pumphrey
If you really, really want to erase the hard drive, I recommend using the floppy-based PowerMax utility you can download from maxtor.com. Among other things, it can do a low-level reformat of the drive, and since the software is coming from the people who make the drives, you can pretty well trust it to do a good job. PowerMax also has some excellent nondesctructive diagnostics. It's a program I recommend at every opportunity -- and it's free!
I second what Paul says. I have used the power-max utility and found it excellent. Jake -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!