cleaning off unix/linux????
Gary Kline
kline at tao.thought.org
Sun May 21 13:41:45 PDT 2006
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 07:21:23PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote:
>
> On May 20, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> > Gang,
> >
> > A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K
> > on the drive) may be entirely good. I am trying to avoid having
> > to buy a DOS/Win platform. I've had both W2K and FBSD or Ubuntu
> > on this one machine. For various reasons I need one DOS machine.
> > (Already have 7 or 8 *Nix servers.) The Windows 2000
> > "Professional" CD find some other non-Windows partition and
> > press "D" and "L" as I will, the installation CD keeps
> > complaining. Eventually I have to hit F3 to quit. So, nutshell,
> > is there any way I can completely remove any trace of *Nix?
> > -----I remember having a DOS floppy and typing an undocumented
> > MBR \ command that wiped the drive clean of this boot record,
> > but this was [mumble] years ago.
> >
> > thanks for any tips, y'all,
> >
> > gary
>
> Looking for delpart.exe? I've used it, it'll do the trick.
> http://www.russelltexas.com/delpart.htm
>
Your suggestion would do the trick except that I cannot get
any W2K installed. That's the problem. So I'm stuck between
the rational (unix) and the imbecilic (guess).
Too bad there isn't some unix/linux port, hopefully floppy-sized
that will boot just enough DOS to use delpart.exe.
Maybe FreeDOS has a boot floppy? Ahnybody here know?
gary
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