Re: [newbie] Help! how to uninstall

2001-12-14 Thread Mark Weaver
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

Re: [newbie] Help! how to uninstall

2001-12-13 Thread Brian Parish
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

Re: [newbie] Help! how to uninstall

2001-12-12 Thread Mark Weaver
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

[newbie] Help! how to uninstall

2001-12-11 Thread Paul Binder
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

Re: [newbie] Help! how to uninstall

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Weaver
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

Re: [newbie] Help! how to uninstall

2001-12-11 Thread Brian Parish
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)