Installing around bad sectors

[Anthony Papillion]

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So a part of my hard disk is basically toast. I don't thin it's a huge
area but at least some of it is. Right now, my local computer store is
telling me it will be 4-5 days before they can get a new one so I'm
thinking about reinstalling and working around the bad areas.

Is there a way to do this? If I reinstall Ubuntu, can I tell it to route
around the bad sectors and not access them once the machine is in use? I
think the boot sector is bad.

Anthony
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