Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
Thanks, All went well except my 4 gig hard drive is now at 20 mb. Any ideas on what I did wrong, and how to correct. I want to use the drive on my sons machine, he has a bad disc and he needs to load windows. I need windows on this machine for work. BrianT - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0 Brian Taylor wrote: Hi folks, I really am new to this and I can't seem to get Mandrake 6.0 uninstalled. I have it installed on a 4 gig drive. I have windows installed on another hard drive. What can I do? Thanks for any help. Brian T Brian, There is no uninstall. You will have to either overwrite the existing partition with an upgrade or completely reformat the the drive. First of all, is there any data that you want to save or back up? Other than removing Mandrake 6.0, do you want to upgrade, and/or reformat? If you want to just remove Mandrake 6.0, you should correct your partition table. Insert a DOS boot disk in your floppy drive. Reboot your computer. At the A:\ prompt, type in: fdisk /MBR Run fdisk again and reformat your partition. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
RE: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
Are you looking to create a 4 Gig. partition on a 20 MB. drive? Roman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Taylor Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 3:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0 Thanks, All went well except my 4 gig hard drive is now at 20 mb. Any ideas on what I did wrong, and how to correct. I want to use the drive on my sons machine, he has a bad disc and he needs to load windows. I need windows on this machine for work. BrianT - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0 Brian Taylor wrote: Hi folks, I really am new to this and I can't seem to get Mandrake 6.0 uninstalled. I have it installed on a 4 gig drive. I have windows installed on another hard drive. What can I do? Thanks for any help. Brian T Brian, There is no uninstall. You will have to either overwrite the existing partition with an upgrade or completely reformat the the drive. First of all, is there any data that you want to save or back up? Other than removing Mandrake 6.0, do you want to upgrade, and/or reformat? If you want to just remove Mandrake 6.0, you should correct your partition table. Insert a DOS boot disk in your floppy drive. Reboot your computer. At the A:\ prompt, type in: fdisk /MBR Run fdisk again and reformat your partition. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
Brian Taylor wrote: Hi folks, I really am new to this and I can't seem to get Mandrake 6.0 uninstalled. I have it installed on a 4 gig drive. I have windows installed on another hard drive. What can I do? Thanks for any help. Brian T Brianuse fdisk as root to delete all partitions on that drive. Alan
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
Thanks Alan, I'm really green, how do I do that ? I don't know where the root is. Brian T - Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0 Brian Taylor wrote: Hi folks, I really am new to this and I can't seem to get Mandrake 6.0 uninstalled. I have it installed on a 4 gig drive. I have windows installed on another hard drive. What can I do? Thanks for any help. Brian T Brianuse fdisk as root to delete all partitions on that drive. Alan
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
What is it that you're trying to do to uninstall Mandrake 6.0? There really isn't anything to do persay except the format the partitions that 6.0 is already occupying and then do what ever you want to do with that space. If you intend to install a newer version of Mandrake in that space, then as I said all you have to do is during the install process just instruct the installer at the proper time to format that space and that's all there is to it. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496 On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Brian Taylor wrote: Hi folks, I really am new to this and I can't seem to get Mandrake 6.0 uninstalled. I have it installed on a 4 gig drive. I have windows installed on another hard drive. What can I do? Thanks for any help. Brian T
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
Brian Taylor wrote: [root] I'm really green, how do I do that ? I don't know where the root is. [snip] Brianthen before we go on let me ask why you want to uninstall/remove Mandrake 6.0? Otherwise, what is it you want to do with that 4 gig of hd space? Alan
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
Brian Taylor wrote: Hi folks, I really am new to this and I can't seem to get Mandrake 6.0 uninstalled. I have it installed on a 4 gig drive. I have windows installed on another hard drive. What can I do? Thanks for any help. Brian T Brian, There is no uninstall. You will have to either overwrite the existing partition with an upgrade or completely reformat the the drive. First of all, is there any data that you want to save or back up? Other than removing Mandrake 6.0, do you want to upgrade, and/or reformat? If you want to just remove Mandrake 6.0, you should correct your partition table. Insert a DOS boot disk in your floppy drive. Reboot your computer. At the A:\ prompt, type in: fdisk /MBR Run fdisk again and reformat your partition. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, you wrote: Hi folks, I really am new to this and I can't seem to get Mandrake 6.0 uninstalled. I have it installed on a 4 gig drive. I have windows installed on another hard drive. What can I do? Thanks for any help. Brian T Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- Just delete the partition that contains 6.0 and viola! Jay "May the sound of happy music, And the lilt of Irish laughter, fill your heart with gladness, that stays forever after." "May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend." http://www.mrsnooky.com
