Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 17:09:02 -0400 From: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cleaning off unix/linux???? Message-ID: <1148245742.21000.77.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <20060521204131.GA30259@thought.org> References: <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org> <617FCA5B-C026-4F22-8DFD-62FD2FE62601@charter.net> <20060521204131.GA30259@thought.org>
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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.
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