Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 14:12:51 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Rowdy <rowdy@netspace.net.au> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cleaning off unix/linux???? Message-ID: <20060521211251.GB30259@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <446FB33F.3070503@netspace.net.au> References: <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org> <446FB33F.3070503@netspace.net.au>
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On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:24:31AM +1000, Rowdy wrote: > 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 > > > > > > fdisk /mbr > > Rowdy Well, I thought this would work, no-sweat. But I tried it (on the target server [ Ubuntu ]) as root, and got "/mbr not found" so I'm guessing you mean the DOS fdisk; the thing with the undocumented feature. But I have not had/used DOS/Win-3.11 since 1993. thanks for the idea. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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