Re: [newbie] Another about Uninstalling Mandrake Linux 8.0

2001-08-05 Thread etharp
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 previousl

Re: [newbie] Another about Uninstalling Mandrake Linux 8.0

2001-08-05 Thread Judith Miner
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 w

Re: [newbie] Another about Uninstalling Mandrake Linux 8.0

2001-08-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
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

Re: [newbie] Another about Uninstalling Mandrake Linux 8.0

2001-08-03 Thread Michael D. Viron
>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,