From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 27 05:03:42 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id FAA13027 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Dec 1994 05:03:42 -0800 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA13001 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 1994 13:03:28 GMT Received: from g386bsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28123; Tue, 27 Dec 94 14:01:45 +0100 Received: by g386bsd.first.gmd.de (OAA14334); Tue, 27 Dec 1994 14:03:42 +0100 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199412271303.OAA14334@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: uninstalling freeBSD To: PrfDJ@aol.com Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 14:03:42 +0059 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <941227073937_7990444@aol.com> from "PrfDJ@aol.com" at Dec 27, 94 07:39:41 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 683 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > being the freeBSD operating system. I cannot remove the Boot system. It does > not seem to cause a problem however I would like to know if there is a way of > removing it easily. I have completely reformatted (not low level format) and > partitioned the drive. It is still there. Any help would be appreciated. The undocument "fdisk /mbr" under DOS does the trick to remove the boot manager. The DOS must be new enough to know that, so DOS from 5.0 upward should know that. ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe