Re: [newbie] Help! how to uninstall
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:22:50 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] frantically pecked out this message: On Thursday 13 December 2001 12:43 am, you wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:10:26 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] frantically pecked out this message: That's true, but with one proviso - don't forget to tidy up the boot manager too. If you just use fdisk to remove the Linux partition, chances are you are killing your active partition and therefore your machine don't boot no more. Before removing anything, make your C drive (in M$ terms) your active partition - i.e. the one that boots. Then reboot and check that Windoze comes up with no sign of a boot manager. Then you can safely zap the Linux partition, create a new one and format at for Windoze use. Have fun with the new machine and the REAL operating system! I guess the next questions we see from you will be about Samba ;-) /brian sh...you just had to tell them, didn't you? :P but really...if they're both living on the same drive and windows was there first isn't that partition already active? I can't really remember cause I don't drool boot anymore, so it's been a little while since having to deal with this. however, i did forget to mention one thing and that was this: after you're finished blowing away that cute little penguin on that drive you will want to also clean up the mbr with this command so that you won't have to tell LILO that there is only one OS on the machine when it starts up. fdisk /mbr As far as I understand, the default behaviour would be for the LILO install to make whatever partition it is being installed on active, so that would usually be the Linux boot partition. Therefore just fdisking this out of existence would I guess leave you without a bootable partition. Considering we are talking WinME here, that would not be a bad option! /Brian Indeed! but wouldn't that then leave a gaping hole where the user would need a real OS? and he'd just toasted one to make room for...??? -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 10:05pm up 4 days, 0 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! how to uninstall
On Thursday 13 December 2001 12:43 am, you wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:10:26 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] frantically pecked out this message: That's true, but with one proviso - don't forget to tidy up the boot manager too. If you just use fdisk to remove the Linux partition, chances are you are killing your active partition and therefore your machine don't boot no more. Before removing anything, make your C drive (in M$ terms) your active partition - i.e. the one that boots. Then reboot and check that Windoze comes up with no sign of a boot manager. Then you can safely zap the Linux partition, create a new one and format at for Windoze use. Have fun with the new machine and the REAL operating system! I guess the next questions we see from you will be about Samba ;-) /brian sh...you just had to tell them, didn't you? :P but really...if they're both living on the same drive and windows was there first isn't that partition already active? I can't really remember cause I don't drool boot anymore, so it's been a little while since having to deal with this. however, i did forget to mention one thing and that was this: after you're finished blowing away that cute little penguin on that drive you will want to also clean up the mbr with this command so that you won't have to tell LILO that there is only one OS on the machine when it starts up. fdisk /mbr As far as I understand, the default behaviour would be for the LILO install to make whatever partition it is being installed on active, so that would usually be the Linux boot partition. Therefore just fdisking this out of existence would I guess leave you without a bootable partition. Considering we are talking WinME here, that would not be a bad option! /Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! how to uninstall
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:10:26 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] frantically pecked out this message: That's true, but with one proviso - don't forget to tidy up the boot manager too. If you just use fdisk to remove the Linux partition, chances are you are killing your active partition and therefore your machine don't boot no more. Before removing anything, make your C drive (in M$ terms) your active partition - i.e. the one that boots. Then reboot and check that Windoze comes up with no sign of a boot manager. Then you can safely zap the Linux partition, create a new one and format at for Windoze use. Have fun with the new machine and the REAL operating system! I guess the next questions we see from you will be about Samba ;-) /brian sh...you just had to tell them, didn't you? :P but really...if they're both living on the same drive and windows was there first isn't that partition already active? I can't really remember cause I don't drool boot anymore, so it's been a little while since having to deal with this. however, i did forget to mention one thing and that was this: after you're finished blowing away that cute little penguin on that drive you will want to also clean up the mbr with this command so that you won't have to tell LILO that there is only one OS on the machine when it starts up. fdisk /mbr -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 8:05am up 2 days, 10:00, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.34, 0.54 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! how to uninstall
I can answer this in one word. Fdisk Seriously, you can kill the installation just by doing an fdisk on that partition and the entire thing is gone. there really isn't much more to it then that. If you're want to replicate your current installation to another machine _that_ is a whole other matter and I would strongly suggest addressing that on the expert list. you might give civileme a holler at MandrakeSoft and ask him directly what that would entail. you can address it directly on the expert list. He reads it quite regularly. There are, i believe, quite a few references to be seen on the Mandrake forums covering replication also. but, just plain old uninstalling of your Mandrake installation is just an Fdisk away. Mark Paul Binder wrote: I just got a new computer, and I want to remove Mandrake from my old one to free up space on it, and install mandrake on my new one. Only thing Is I have no idea how to uninstall Mandrake from my system. I do not want to Fdisk the whole thing, because I still have Windows Me on the computer as well, with files I want to keep. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! how to uninstall
That's true, but with one proviso - don't forget to tidy up the boot manager too. If you just use fdisk to remove the Linux partition, chances are you are killing your active partition and therefore your machine don't boot no more. Before removing anything, make your C drive (in M$ terms) your active partition - i.e. the one that boots. Then reboot and check that Windoze comes up with no sign of a boot manager. Then you can safely zap the Linux partition, create a new one and format at for Windoze use. Have fun with the new machine and the REAL operating system! I guess the next questions we see from you will be about Samba ;-) /brian On Wednesday 12 December 2001 3:03 am, you wrote: I can answer this in one word. Fdisk Seriously, you can kill the installation just by doing an fdisk on that partition and the entire thing is gone. there really isn't much more to it then that. If you're want to replicate your current installation to another machine _that_ is a whole other matter and I would strongly suggest addressing that on the expert list. you might give civileme a holler at MandrakeSoft and ask him directly what that would entail. you can address it directly on the expert list. He reads it quite regularly. There are, i believe, quite a few references to be seen on the Mandrake forums covering replication also. but, just plain old uninstalling of your Mandrake installation is just an Fdisk away. Mark Paul Binder wrote: I just got a new computer, and I want to remove Mandrake from my old one to free up space on it, and install mandrake on my new one. Only thing Is I have no idea how to uninstall Mandrake from my system. I do not want to Fdisk the whole thing, because I still have Windows Me on the computer as well, with files I want to keep. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
