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) > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
