Help me delete win 95 partition

From: Carl (carl_at_snarlnet.com)
Date: 01/27/04 

Date: 26 Jan 2004 16:35:52 -0800

I've got a dual boot system. i put RH 7.3 on a dell that already had
win 95 installed but on a separate drive. is there a way to reclaim
the drive that win 95 is on for linux? What commands would i use. do
i need to worry about hosing the mbr since win95 was on there first?

Thanks,

ck

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