Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

[Matt Ventura <mattventura@mattventura.net>]

On 3/9/2015 9:07 PM, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I have NO interest in dual boot. I simply want to wipe the disk and install
> Jessie. I have last weeks weekly build of debian-testing-i3k6-xfce-CD-1.iso.
> I starts nicely like I have seen many times before, but when I get to
> partitoning the HD there is trouble. It won't overwrite the NTFS partitions
> that contain Windows 7. I think I have read about this and there is some
> special trick, but I can't find it. Please, someone. Help. Point me to the
> directions.
Does creating a new partition table work? In the text based installer, 
try pressing enter
on the disk itself (not the partition). You can also hop over to a TTY 
and manually use fdisk
to do it (fdisk /dev/<device>, o, w, then sort out partitioning in the 
installer).

Matt Ventura