Re: [newbie] Another about Uninstalling Mandrake Linux 8.0
Dennis wrote: Use a windows boot disk to boot into dos and fdisk and delete the partition reformat to a fat32 and all the rest and linux is gone Wont't work. DOS FDISK will not delete a non-DOS partition. I don't know how NT and W2K deal with this, but I expect they may operate the same way. You have to remove the Linux partition with Mandrake, from which it is very easy, and then you can do FDISK /MBR to remove the Linux boot manager. Then you can set up a Windows partition. Some third-party tools will also delete non-Windows partitions. --Judy Miner
Re: [newbie] Another about Uninstalling Mandrake Linux 8.0
not EXACTLY the same for an NTFS partition, but as far as nt w/fat32 or ME, is the same On Friday 03 August 2001 23:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read the method for uninstalling Mandrake Linux when there was a Win98 previously. Will it work also with in the case of having previously a dual boot of WinME and Win2000? Thanks. Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] Another about Uninstalling Mandrake Linux 8.0
On Saturday 04 August 2001 12:52 am, Michael D. Viron wrote: Actually, the correct (and somewhat safer) procedure is: 1. Boot into linux (toms rootboot, or other single floppy distro) 2. Login as root, if required 3. Run linux fdisk, delete all ext2 partitions (windows fdisk usually does not correctly recognize ext2 partitions, and hence doesn't delete the partitions) 4. Reboot to a windows boot disk. 5. Run fdisk /mbr. 6. Reboot to a windows boot disk, run fdisk, create fat32 partition(s) as you want. 7. Reboot to windows, format the partition(s) you just created. or, just boot your Mandrake install cd, skip ahead to the partitioning section, delete the Linux partitions and create one(s) for Windows. Done. I just did this a few days ago to rearrange my Windoze drive, hda. 'Cept I was deleting Windoze partitions, making less for Windows, and adding a 7 gig partition for Linux. I booted my W98 CD and re-installed on it's new smaller fat32 space that DiskDrake made for it. Didn't even need to fdisk/ mbr, Winblows install did it. So I did need to boot my Mandrake floppy to re-install lilo to use my real OS on hdb ;) 'Course I never did believe the myth that you havt'a install Windoze first, then Linux either ; -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Another about Uninstalling Mandrake Linux 8.0
doesn't matter the flavor of Win the proceedure is the same. Use a windows boot disk to boot into dos and fdisk and delete the partition reformat to a fat32 and all the rest and linux is gone, although that is the backwards way of doing it, you need to delete windows IMHO. : -) Actually, the correct (and somewhat safer) procedure is: 1. Boot into linux (toms rootboot, or other single floppy distro) 2. Login as root, if required 3. Run linux fdisk, delete all ext2 partitions (windows fdisk usually does not correctly recognize ext2 partitions, and hence doesn't delete the partitions) 4. Reboot to a windows boot disk. 5. Run fdisk /mbr. 6. Reboot to a windows boot disk, run fdisk, create fat32 partition(s) as you want. 7. Reboot to windows, format the partition(s) you just created. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
