>Hi! >I'm helping my MS Windows friend and I want to automatically repartion >to fat fs >and format the entire hd and then install a dos boot image, and no >Linux >filesystem or rpms whatsoever :-(, on the hd. Is it possible to use >kickstart >and a postscript for this? It may or may not be possible to do this - I don't know. However, if I understand you correctly you want to make a clean hard disk and then install dos. The easiest way to do this is to make an msdos boot floppy. Copy the following files out of windows (use a find to get them if you don't know where they are) and splosh them onto a formatted disk: msdos.sys config.sys config.dos autoexec.bat format.exe command.com fdisk.exe sys.exe. You may get it to work with fewer files. Then boot off the floppy and run fdisk /mbr to clear the master boot record - NB this will stop you from booting normally - once you've done that run fdisk again to make a partition. Then you want a dos compatible filing system on there so run format c: and finally to get the system files on there you'll need to run sys c:. You should then be able to boot into dos on the hard disk. NB You may want to copy the mscdex file to get the cdrom drivers as well - otherwise you might find you can't boot from cd. cheers -- Geoff Dolman JDRF/WT Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory Cambridge Institute for Medical Research University of Cambridge http://www-gene.cimr.cam.ac.uk/todd/
