> Unless I am mis-informed, when you remove a partition, all the information
in
> the partition is irrevocably lost - forever! To my knowlege, Linux does
not put
> any kind of information in the CMOS, or re-do the BIOS. If you remove the
Linux
> partition, then do the DOS fdisk /mbr, that should r
In your first post, yopu mentioned PartitionMagic. Try creating, the formatting
the Linux partition(s) with PM (presuming you have the full PM v4.x). If
anything can do it, PM should be able to, else try fips.
Ernie
On Mon, 01 Nov 1999,Karen M. Heiby wrote:
| I have had someone else email me
Karen,
Unless I am mis-informed, when you remove a partition, all the information in
the partition is irrevocably lost - forever! To my knowlege, Linux does not put
any kind of information in the CMOS, or re-do the BIOS. If you remove the Linux
partition, then do the DOS fdisk /mbr, that should r
On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> >
> > unless mkfs is erroring dureing format (check tty5) it's eraseing it all
> >
>
> Sorry but I'm too much of a newbie to know how to check tty5 just yet... Is this
> something I should do now, or something I do during a format, and how do I check it?
> ;-)
>
All righty! :-) Thanks for finding out for me. I had thought in the beginning, AOL's
server might keep my buddy list, and thought "nahhh"! I guess they do!!
Karen
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> KarenAxalon is doing a good job here so I won't interfere, but you
> need to know this so you'll le
Something else to try is to BOOT from the CD _ONLY_ if possible...if you are
booting from a floppy...it may have install info listed in the Kernal.
Just trying to help...:)
Jaguar
Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> KarenAxalon is doing a good job here so I won't interfere, but you
>
On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> I would like to know how to cleanly uninstall Linux. I'm having peculiar
> problems that I think can only be fixed with a clean install.
>
try "fdisk /mbr" to remove LILO from the master boot
record. Then, you should be ready to do a clean install,
although just
KarenAxalon is doing a good job here so I won't interfere, but you
need to know this so you'll let go of it as a reason that you must not
be getting a clean install. The following is from the Q&A section of
the GAIM home page:
Q. Where the heck is my buddy list stored? It gets erased sometim
Karenif you're formatting all of your linux partitions when you
install, then that's a clean install. I believe that GAIM stores your
contact list info on a web server, not on your local file system.
Alan
"Karen M. Heiby" wrote:
>
> I would like to know how to cleanly uninstall Linux. I'
Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
>
> On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Karen M. Heiby wrote:
>
> > Hi, answers to the questions follow within the text:
> >
> > On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Axalon wrote:
> > > On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Karen M. Heiby wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > > Ok first off, if you allow it to format the drive duri
I have had someone else email me from the newsgroup, saying that the Mandrake
installation's re-formatting process also did not work... Any insight into
this? Here's what he wrote:
> I have had the same thing happen several months ago. The regular
> format did n
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Karen M. Heiby wrote:
> Hi, answers to the questions follow within the text:
>
> On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Axalon wrote:
> > On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Karen M. Heiby wrote:
[snip]
>
> > Ok first off, if you allow it to format the drive during install it's
> > gone, not sorta gone
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Karen M. Heiby wrote:
> > Ok first off, if you allow it to format the drive during install it's
> > gone, not sorta gone but gone, it would cost big money to retieve even a
> > small piece...
>
> I tell it to format my Linux native partition but I swear it's keeping stuff.
Hi, answers to the questions follow within the text:
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Karen M. Heiby wrote:
>
> > I would like to know how to cleanly uninstall Linux. I'm having peculiar
> > problems that I think can only be fixed with a clean install.
> >
> > Here's wh
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