-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 bosKo wrote:
>dad decided he wanted the computer back so I tried uninstalling linux, >but it stuffed up somehow and now the computer boots asking for a >disk.. but god knows what disk. If the problem is just that LILO still installed, boot into MICROS~1 DOS, do: fdisk /mbr That may be all it needs. If you've got Linux partitions that you now can't get rid of with Windows 95/98, thank Microsoft for their crippled fdisk that only understands Microsoft partitions. Literally every disk utility I can think of _except_ Microsoft fdisk is able to delete Linux partitions. Here are some ideas: - - Get your hands on a boot disk for Caldera DR-DOS, which can handle this. - - Start the install routine for any NT-class Microsoft OS (NT, 2000, XP). Those installers have disk utilities that are capable of erasing Linux partitions. - - Re-run the Red Hat installer, and manually set up the partitions such that there's only one primary partition and no swap -- if it'll let you do that. Go far enough that it saves the disk info, and then abort the install. - - Pull out that hard disk and install it on some other machine that's running Linux, and use Linux fdisk, sfdisk, cfdisk, etc. to clean all the partitions off it. - - Joebewan's DEBUG routine, if you're feeling brave. Good luck ... - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPR+bD79BpdPKTBGtEQLjUwCeOapXnjPkP8BH4un6VVfcIP5Vhu8An1sf YiVag/BS6rQJCZfBeMTWHSow =6GXZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
