Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 8
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:19, John Rigby wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 04:51, you manipulated electrons to produce: > > On Monday 30 July 2001 19:59, Caruso Aldo wrote: > > > > 1. Boot from windows boot floppy > > (make one at a friend's PC if you don't have one) > > > > 2. at DOS prompt, type FDISK /mbr > > > > > > > > > > Really folks , this one comes up so often we should put it in the > > URL or something :-) > > *** DONE! It's in the "Escape Book" :-) This doesn't uninstall Mandrake at all. All it does is cut off access to the GNU/Linux partition. To properly uninstall GNU/Linux (any flavour), you should delete the GNU/Linux partitions (including swap partitions) and create new ones using Windos filesystems. Otherwise, GNU/Linux will still be there, and you won't be able to access those partitions from Windows. That's just space wasted. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 8
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 04:51, you manipulated electrons to produce: > On Monday 30 July 2001 19:59, Caruso Aldo wrote: > > 1. Boot from windows boot floppy > (make one at a friend's PC if you don't have one) > > 2. at DOS prompt, type FDISK /mbr > > > > > Really folks , this one comes up so often we should put it in the > URL or something :-) *** DONE! It's in the "Escape Book" :-) -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 8
If I'm reading this right you want to uninstall Mandrake 8.0 and you want your mbr back the way it was. If your going to install other Linux Distro's then all you need to do is what several people have told you and that will reset your mbr. As far as uninstalling Mandrake 8.0 you don't really need to do this if you are going to install another Distro. That distro should use the same partations that you have set already. I hope that this answer's your question. Don --- Caruso Aldo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed Mandrake 8 in my PC which had > Windows 98, partitioning > previously my hard disk. To my surprise I noticed > that Mandrake > automatically puts LILO in the Master Boot Record, > and did not give me a > chance to select boot from floppy method (as SuSE > 7.1 did). > > As I have to check other Linux Distributions, I > need to uninstall > Mandrake, and left the things as they where before > (Windows 98 alone, and > booting as it normally boots, without LILO). > > How can I accomplish that ? > > Thanks in advance, > > Aldo > __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 8
On Monday 30 July 2001 12:59 pm, Caruso Aldo wrote: > I've just installed Mandrake 8 in my PC which had Windows 98, > partitioning previously my hard disk. To my surprise I noticed that > Mandrake automatically puts LILO in the Master Boot Record, and did > not give me a chance to select boot from floppy method (as SuSE 7.1 > did). > > As I have to check other Linux Distributions, I need to uninstall > Mandrake, and left the things as they where before (Windows 98 alone, > and booting as it normally boots, without LILO). > > How can I accomplish that ? Not sure what you're saying Aldo, ie, "As I have to check other Linux Distributions". If you don't want LILO installed in MBR, you should just boot your W98 start floppy and run 'fdisk /mbr' from a DOS prompt. That puts your mbr back like it was without uninstalling LM. Then you can still use your Mandrake 8 boot floppy (you did make one, right?) to boot Mandrake Linux. There's also ways to use LILO to boot multiple distros, tho I haven't. Search MandrakeForum. I believe there's a good article there in the archives by Civileme for doing this. Also, LILO doesn't have to be installed in mbr, see 'man lilo'. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 8
On Monday 30 July 2001 19:59, Caruso Aldo wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed Mandrake 8 in my PC which had Windows 98, > partitioning previously my hard disk. To my surprise I noticed that > Mandrake > automatically puts LILO in the Master Boot Record, and did not give me a > chance to select boot from floppy method (as SuSE 7.1 did). > > As I have to check other Linux Distributions, I need to uninstall > Mandrake, and left the things as they where before (Windows 98 alone, and > booting as it normally boots, without LILO). > > How can I accomplish that ? 1. Boot from windows boot floppy (make one at a friend's PC if you don't have one) 2. at DOS prompt, type FDISK /mbr Really folks , this one comes up so often we should put it in the URL or something :-) -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC Free Dimitry Sklyarov!
