From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 20 23:46:59 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 ABC9A16A440 for ; Sat, 20 May 2006 23:46:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2410943D69 for ; Sat, 20 May 2006 23:46:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4KNkui4010055 for ; Sat, 20 May 2006 16:46:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k4KNkuoj010054 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 20 May 2006 16:46:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 16:46:56 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19++ years of service to the Unix community Cc: Subject: 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: Sat, 20 May 2006 23:47:00 -0000 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 -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix