>There is no "uninstall" method, except to fdisk & format the drive. >'fdisk /mbr' (from a DOS prompt -- boot from a Win98 boot diskette) will >get rid of LILO, and 'fdisk' will allow you to delete your non-DOS >partition(s) and create one or more DOS partitions. You then need to >format each partition (again in DOS, using a Win98 boot diskette) to >make them usable. If your boot diskette's version of 'format' will not >support fat32, then you can always convert to fat32 after Windows is >installed. > >Dave Dave, Michael S, and original poster, Actually, you won't be able to remove the ext2 partitions with windows fdisk--what you've done if you clear the mbr first is no way to get into linux (other than via a boot disk) to remove the ext2 partition information. What needs to happen is boot using something similar to tom's root / boot disk (link should be off the "distribution page" of linux.org) or into your linux install, run linux fdisk as root, remove all ext2 partitions. Boot into windows, run 'fdisk /mbr' (note, this is windows fdisk), reboot using the floppy, and repartition the drive using windows fdiskm, setting up partitions for a FAT16 or FAT32 partition - if it is a large drive, choose FAT32 (FAT16 has a limit of 2 GB per partition), then format. This is, of course, the same set of instructions that civilme sent to the list. In the next few days, I'll have finished a FAQ relating to questions (using my answers) that have been posted to this list and the expert list--if nothing else, civilme, myself, and the other experts on the list can post the url for the person to look at instead of sending the same instructions to the list every time -- I've seen at least 3 or 4 posts concerning uninstalls, for example. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
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