Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 20:15:38 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cleaning off unix/linux???? Message-ID: <20060520201347.2D03.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org> References: <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org>
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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 Personally, I keep a copy of FreeDOS <http://www.freedos.com>; available for just such an occasion. I am sure there are easier ways though. -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net
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