Best way to format my winXP partition?

Factual Questions
1

Windows XP has proven to me that it really isn’t worth the almost 3 gigs it wants by itself, so I’m back to Linux.

How would I go about formatting my C: drive, without needing to boot into windows? Keep in mind that I have my Red Hat 7 CD right here (complete with fdisk and Disk Druid).

I don’t have a floppy drive–so a boot disk is out of the question.

2

You want to totally wipe out Windows, start from scratch and just run Linux?

When the computer boots, go into the BIOS and tell it to boot from the CD-ROM.

Pop in the Red Hat install disk. It will give you the option to partition and format the drives as part of the installation.