If you just want to remove the Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot loader information from your master boot record (MBR), insert WINDOWS 98 CD and use the undocumented flag: fdisk /mbr
If you need to remove Linux from a hard drive, insert CD1 of Redhat Enterprise Linux, Once you have booted off the CD, a boot prompt appears. At the boot prompt, type: linux rescue You are prompted for your keyboard and language requirements. Complete the formalities as you would during the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You are then given a command prompt where you can access the partitions you would like to remove. First, type the command list-harddrives. This command lists all hard drives on your system that are recognizable by the installation program, as well as their sizes in megabytes. To remove partitions, use the partitioning utility parted. Start parted, where /dev/hda is the device on which to remove the partition: parted /dev/hda Using the print command, view the current partition table to determine the minor number of the partition to remove: print The print command also displays the partition's type (such as linux-swap, ext2, ext3, and so on). Knowing the type of the partition helps you in determining whether to remove the partition. Remove the partition with the command rm. For example, to remove the partition with minor number 3: rm 3 After removing the partition, use the print command to confirm that it is removed from the partition table. Once you have removed the Linux partitions and made all of the changes you need to make, type quit to quit parted. After quitting parted, type exit at the boot prompt to exit rescue mode and reboot your system, instead of continuing with the installation. The system should reboot automatically. If it does not, you can reboot your computer using [Control]-[Alt]-[Delete]. (c) Centre Of Discovery Wanna Learn and Know more about Linux, log on to http://discoverlinux.blogspot.com/ -- Posted by Parag Kalra to Discovering Linux !<http://discoverlinux.blogspot.com/2006/10/removing-red-hat-enterprise-linux.html>at 10/09/2006 07:51:00 PM -- PARAG . A . KALRA, The GNU GUY It's easier to go down a hill than up it, but the view is much better at the top. Live Linux! Love Linux! Learn Linux http://discoverlinux.blogspot.com/ SMOKING: A cigarette is a pipe with a fire at one end and a fool at the other. . More than 400,000 deaths in the U.S. each year are from smoking-related illnesses. Smoking greatly increases your risks for lung cancer and many other cancers. Pregnant women who smoke are more likely to deliver babies whose weights are too low for the babies' good health. If all women quit smoking during pregnancy, about 4,000 new babies would not die each year. People often complain that smoking bothers them it actually kills them. Smoking is Simply a pulmonary rape. Plz Plz Plz Quit Smoking! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
