Another Dumb question

[markr]

I am trying to install the server, and during the initial sequence of commands, which pass by extremely fast, I see it tying or loading things, but then at the end, my screen displays "no video" and the DVD finally quits spinning and it will just sit there. I am running a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2 mother board, AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ with 4GB RAM, and have 4 1TB drives that are currently all NTFS and as one volume. Dont have a floppy, so where can I get a bootable CD where I can kill the NTFS partition (because I think that is causing me the install issue) and then be able to install the server OS. Also should I set up RAID with the hardware or is there a software solution once I have the server installed to handle the 4 drives and mirror them across all.

Tks for any help

Mark

[moredruid]

for "killing" your NTFS volume:
boot with a live distro (any will do) and run the following command on your disks:

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=1

linux counts disks this way: 1st = /dev/sda, 2nd /dev/sdb, 3rd /dev/sdc etc. so be sure you check which disk should be modified.
the above command will overwrite the first MB of the first disk with zeroes, effectively erasing the boot sector & block info