Fresh install on partitioned drive?

Hi,
I bought a used Mac Mini with Tiger, and I want to erase the hd and do a fresh install. However, it looks like it has Windoze installed in a separate partition. If I "Erase and Install" Tiger will it erase both partitions and restore the hd to a single volume? Or should I do something to prepare the drive before attempting the install?
Thanks,
Andrew

If you want to get rid of the second partition you will need to re-partition the drive (despite the term, you can have just one partition).
[Formatting & Partitioning a Hard Drive in OS X - Tiger and Leopard|http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/partitioningtiger.html]
[Journaling, Zeroing, Partitioning & OS 9 driver|http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=4084]
[Kappy's extensive hard drive formatting post|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8340551&#8340551]
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