[ale] proper way to reformat a hard drive?

[synco at xodarap.net (Synco Gibraldter)]

At 01:05 PM 10/8/2003, you wrote:
>Obviously I need to try again, but how do I get the Suse
>   install routine to properly create the boot sectors?

i'm not familiar with what suse uses to boot, but you could just go 
download lilo (or some prefer grub) -- those are two very easy-to-use boot 
loading apps that support loading a linux kernel.