On Wednesday 26 Nov 2003 9:44 pm, Adam wrote: > Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 4:44:48 PM, Charlie Mahan wrote: > >> How is it you run a Mandrake program, to wipe Mandrake off the > >> system entirely? Can you explain? > > > > When running from the first CD you can access the same tools to > > remove the distribution as you would use to install it in the > > first place. It saves you having to buy proprietary software > > (Partition Magic etc) to do something that can be done with Free > > (as in beer) Open Source tools. Those tools will run from the > > disks and are loaded in memory to accomplish the tasks required, > > just as any other operating system's installer does it. > > Sorry, I have never heard of any application that runs when the > hard drive contains no data at all. Sounds a mystery. > So you never ran a Windows boot disk prior to setup? How do you think an operating system gets onto the hard drive?
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