Getting Rid of Debian/Linux
I have a requirement to remove Debian from one of our workstations and re-install DOS/Windows (Horror!) How do I do this? Thanks in advance Stephen Lavelle Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd.~ Australian Tanned Wet Blue Leather ~110 Heales Road,Lara, Geelong, Australia3212Tel:++(03)52742232Fax:++(03)52742350mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting Rid of Debian/Linux
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: > I have a requirement to remove Debian from one of our workstations and > re-install DOS/Windows (Horror!) > How do I do this? > Thanks in advance > Stephen Lavelle > > > Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd. > ~ Australian Tanned Wet Blue Leather ~ Assuming you don't want to preserve any of your Debian setup, just insert Disk 1 of a set of DOS 5 or higher disks and hit the ol' Microsoft button (Reset). The setup routine will repartion/format/install DOS. If you want to do it more manually, boot off of a DOS/Win95/98 boot floppy that has the fdisk.com, format.exe, and sys.com files on it. 1) Run fdisk and delete all the existing Linux partitions and create DOS partitions. You may need to run "fdisk /mbr" also to "reclaim" the master boot record for DOS's use. Reboot if necessary, off the floppy. 2) Run "format c: /s /v" to format drive C:, verifying as you go, and copying the boot system to the hard drive. If you should forget the "/s", you'll have to "sys c:" after the format is complete. 3) Pop out the floppy and reboot. You now have a minimal DOS system. Since you didn't specify what version of DOS/Windows, that's as far as I'll take you. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC!
Re: Getting Rid of Debian/Linux
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: > I have a requirement to remove Debian from one of our workstations and > re-install DOS/Windows (Horror!) Poor fools :^( At least try to install the Caldera DR-DOS package as opposed to the MS one ... > How do I do this? It's ugly ... ;^) Just boot from your DOS installation disks, run the FDISK program (I can't recall if it will do this automatically or not - you may have to exit to the DOS prompt with the F3 key (again, that's the way I remember it, not necessarily the way it is). You will have to create a DOS partition (possibly by first removing other partitions) and mark the DOS partition as active or bootable (I think the DOS terminology is "active"). Run the DOS "FORMAT C:" command and reboot from the DOS boot/install disk. The rest is obvious. I'm sure that you'll know how to install windoze from there. Regards, -- David McDonald telephone: +61-2-9554-0346 (direct) Communications Analyst +61-2-9554- (switch) Security Mailing Services 04-1237-2284(mobile) 6 The Crescent facsimile: +61-2-9554-0554 P.O. Box 86 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] KINGSGROVE NSW 2208 AUSTRALIA -- Type Bits/KeyIDDate User ID pub 1024/2AB67619 1997/10/22 David J. McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.3ia mQCNAzRNy18AAAEEANcLDeCCp5q9B1dOW25rnmgYf9K/MQ/lFmPl54Ei7tbLpda7 XPWRXD2yquVcVB1OUkS1gZilGG6WgVFfZYFdAkej+JHblziObbTzcRU5WNHT4cHP MSn4RJ8E6x6TBXZYUzAtOAoZpy80fIfv+0HcNHgvZyxklnGAwd7wYloqtnYZAAUR tCpEYXZpZCBKLiBNY0RvbmFsZCA8ZGF2ZW1hY0BzZWNtYWlsLmNvbS5hdT6JAJUD BRA0Tctf3vBiWiq2dhkBAelcBAC6EG3V+djVMSWZKFlEuCdUyxc6YR+d9ccIHMyx 71YXc9b1ztclP8sVjgnyizaXD8qyeTtlgoULCbkO5bG/vXrLy+VhnxTrpVeoAI3I Q7RGL+G0Bd4k21CA8ONvLbEM8363/mLYyRw0LESfIbHpUbWaosS88ZZeH6tPKqvF v92mTA== =VAPe -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Re: Getting Rid of Debian/Linux
Hi! David McDonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: > > > I have a requirement to remove Debian from one of our workstations and > > re-install DOS/Windows (Horror!) > Just boot from your DOS installation disks, run the FDISK program (I can't > recall if it will do this automatically or not - you may have to exit to > the DOS prompt with the F3 key (again, that's the way I remember it, not > necessarily the way it is). Note: DoS won't delete logical non-DoS partitions. You need to use something else to delete them. For example you could use "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=1" to nuke ALL partitions on /dev/hda or simply use Linux's fdisk to delete those parts (or change their type to a DoS one) Rainer -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB pgp6lWLVReORx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Getting Rid of Debian/Linux
Try GDISK. It's more flexible than DoS fdisk. I use in on my laptop to create/delete Linux partitions many times. -Original Message- From: Rainer Clasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, November 28, 1998 9:20 PM Subject: Re: Getting Rid of Debian/Linux Hi! David McDonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: > > > I have a requirement to remove Debian from one of our workstations and > > re-install DOS/Windows (Horror!) > Just boot from your DOS installation disks, run the FDISK program (I can't > recall if it will do this automatically or not - you may have to exit to > the DOS prompt with the F3 key (again, that's the way I remember it, not > necessarily the way it is). Note: DoS won't delete logical non-DoS partitions. You need to use something else to delete them. For example you could use "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=1" to nuke ALL partitions on /dev/hda or simply use Linux's fdisk to delete those parts (or change their type to a DoS one) Rainer -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB
