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 way.

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 previously a

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 does

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, the