cleaning off unix/linux????

[Mike Jeays]

On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 13:41 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Have you tried Knoppix?  You can use the dd command to wipe a disk very
effectively.  And if the machine won't boot Knoppix, I would suspect a
hardware problem.