Re: How to Uninstall Linux 8.0?

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if you are trying to unistall linux,
and you have installed the lilo boot manager,,
don`t forget to do a fdisk /mbr with the Win/DOS
because if you don`t do it,,
you will onlye have a

LI

when booting,,

frisco.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Samuel Flory" <sflory@rackable.com>
To: <psyche-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: How to Uninstall Linux 8.0?


> Tom Diehl wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Robert L. Cochran wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>If you want to install Windows 2000 or XP, I think the Windows
> >>installation programs will automatically come up with their versions of
> >>fdisk if the target drive has insufficient free space, no Windows
> >>partitions, or is uninitialized (that is, brand new). I'm not sure if
> >>this is true of Windows 9x or ME. If not just whip out the Windows fdisk
> >>program and use it to re-partition your drive as you want. Don't use
> >>Linux fdisk to format for a Windows partition even if it has that
> >>capability. Use what Windows provides.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I think part of the problem is that older dos/win9x fdisk will not delete
> >linux partitions. I have run into this before and had to use the linux
> >fdisk to delete the linux partitions and then use an M$ fdisk to create
> >the M$ partitions.
> >
> >HTH,
> >
> >
> >
>
>   Okay folks you guys are over thinking this.  If all you want to do is
> wipe out a linux, and there is nothing else on the disk .  Just wipe the
> mbr and partition table and be done with it.
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$device count=1024
>
> Where $device = your drive.   (IE sda , or hda)
>
>
>
>
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