The way I do this is begin installing NT4. It sees the Linux partitions
during the setup routine and you can delete them there and create new Fat16
partitions.
Christopher L Blake
Manager of Information Technology
HighPoint Systems, Inc
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Uninstall RH and format hard drive, revisited, briefly...
Greetings and felicitations once again;
Yesterday I had the brass and effrontery to prevail upon the illustrious
members of this list to help me with a small problem concerning the
uninstall of RH and reformatting of my second hard drive on my home machine.
Several folks offered suggestions and I went ahead and tried them out.
I spent a couple of hours attempting to create a boot disk, which sounds
pretty ridiculous on the face of it, but there it is. Tried a variety of
methods and got various error messages throughout the process as I thought
to myself, 'Ya know, this shouldn't be this hard.' Suffice to say that my
efforts were unsuccessful, which made me feel pretty darn small until I
recalled with which product I was dealing. In retrospect I probably should
have tried Ben's suggestion of booting up the RH cd and going from there,
but I stupidly and negligently figured it would be easier and faster with
WinDoze and/or DOS, and I'd never had these problems before making a boot
disk and/or formatting a drive.
Anyway, I was about out of ideas, and then I stumbled across the boot disk
supplied with the Maxtor hard drive I had purchased last summer upon which I
had installed RH. Booted it up and lo and behold, I was then able to format
the drive, no sweat, and recover the entire 15GB for WinDoze apps. This was
less than elegant, admittedly, but it sure got the job done and
lickety-split.
Thomas Albright asked me:
So ... Why can't you work in linux? I'm no developer, (as is obvious by
my questions on theis list,) but I use linux almost exclusively. I have
WordPerfect 2000, ApplixWare, and Star Office for office apps, gimp and
ImageMagik for graphics, netscape for the web, pine for e-mail, slrn for
news...
Why (besides games) do you need that other OS?
If it were solely up to me I would run Linux exclusively on that home
system, but unfortunately I gotta share it with wife and kidz, even though
the kidz have their own WinDoze boxes (their 56k modems are "too slow" so
they tend to wanna use our machine equipped with cable modem, natch.)
Anyway, the C drive was getting full and the D drive, where I had RH
installed, was needed for more space for work-related apps and files,
unfortunately again, all WinDoze products. I was going to add a third drive
but decided instead to build a whole separate machine and try out various
flavors of Linux on it and the rest of the household would be off it
completely. So I'm interested to continue hearing the pros and cons of the
different distros in this group.
Thanks to all for attempting to assist this still-newbie Linux user; with
any luck at all, I may be moving soon to a shop that runs Tru64 and RH,
besides VMS and NT.
Hope to meet some of you this year F2F; good bunch of folks, no exceptions
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