From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 21 21:09:08 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 8442D16A5F5 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 21:09:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mj001@rogers.com) Received: from smtp106.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp106.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AC7043D62 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 21:09:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mj001@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 61358 invoked from network); 21 May 2006 21:09:04 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=TyBB30VGPEyyznB/wnPTCAkzF+V3yB9gLvvu5si9p1dd7T3MvpmIB1l/4qjbnoBeLrtVpMpykPeSf9j7yWt+jViFB6MJfNS8OJJd2cVdz9pZCxoM1tJEg7ExjQu83eIhN931V4momo2giodXN64OUNYXPBMFwWwjIBY/Yr4izRw= ; Received: from unknown (HELO chaucer.jeays.ca) (mj001@rogers.com@72.139.51.96 with plain) by smtp106.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 May 2006 21:09:03 -0000 From: Mike Jeays To: Gary Kline In-Reply-To: <20060521204131.GA30259@thought.org> References: <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org> <617FCA5B-C026-4F22-8DFD-62FD2FE62601@charter.net> <20060521204131.GA30259@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 17:09:02 -0400 Message-Id: <1148245742.21000.77.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Charles Howse , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: cleaning off unix/linux???? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 21:09:13 -0000 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.