From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 10:02:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA11627 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 10:02:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA11606 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 10:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA19493; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 20:00:48 +0200 Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 20:00:48 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: Dale Poole cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <322C55B7.2514@cdngateway.pe.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Dale Poole wrote: > To Whom It May Concern: > > I have recently found it necessary to remove an unscrupulous technician from my staff. > During that person's time here, he had installed FreeBSD on one of our servers. His > effort was directed to offering shell access accounts for some of our clients, as well > as to a MUD. > > However, the shell access and MUD are no longer part of our company plan and we'd like > to get the server into use for other purposes. > > I thought it would be as simple as booting from a DOS diskette and reformatting the hard > drive, however, I have discovered that when booting to DOS, there is still an odd: > > F1 . . . dos > > Default: F1 > > ...on the screen when ever the machine is booted. I would like to be able to remove > this, but unfortunately I have no idea how. > > Can you provide any assistance in this regard? I guess so, if all you want is DOS (poor you :-(). The trick is to use an undocumented switch on the DOS fdisk utility. Simply run: FDISK /MBR It won't say anything back, but will restore the boot sector to the DOS default. > > Sincerly, > > Dale Poole > Technical Director, > Canadian Gateway Inc. > > daleus@cdngateway.pe.ca > -or- > dpoole@bud.peinet.pe.ca >