What do you plan on doing after you've formatted the disk? Most OS
installers have the capability to do this. I'm curious however, as to
what you planon doing with it, if you (a) have no OS, and (b) seem to
have no way of putting an OS on it(if floppy and cdrom are broken).
To answer your question, I think the command you need most is help.
Failing that, try pressing tab twice. It's a long time since I used
the grub shell, so this may be wrong.
On 5/24/05, Tim O Driscoll <t.odriscoll at gmail.com> wrote:
> i bought a laptop off a mate with linux redhat on it i want to format
> the hard drive i can get as far as the grub> command prompt but i have
> no idea what to do next can you help? the 3.5 floppy disk doesnt work
> and the cd rom drive is tempermential to say the lease what commands
> do i need to type in the grub> command screen many thanks for your
> help
>> Tim
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