From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 21 00:15:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7120B16A420 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 00:15:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com (wx-out-0102.google.com [66.249.82.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D830143D46 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 00:15:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id i31so718278wxd for ; Sat, 20 May 2006 17:15:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.34.5 with SMTP id h5mr3728875wxh; Sat, 20 May 2006 17:15:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.4? ( [216.45.217.148]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id i19sm3611385wxd.2006.05.20.17.15.33; Sat, 20 May 2006 17:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 20:15:38 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Organization: Seibercom In-Reply-To: <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org> References: <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20060520201347.2D03.GERARD@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.25 [en] Subject: Re: cleaning off unix/linux???? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 00:15:39 -0000 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 available for just such an occasion. I am sure there are easier ways though. -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net