Re: [newbie] uninstalling Mandrake

2003-01-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Thursday 02 January 2003 06:56 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Steve Mendizabal wrote: Anyone know where I can find the docs to uninstall Mandrake as well as lilo? TIA Steve-O Good God man! thats blasphemy! REPENT!!! Apart from just wiping out the partition there isn't

Re: [newbie] uninstalling Mandrake

2003-01-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 14:17, Steve Mendizabal wrote: Anyone know where I can find the docs to uninstall Mandrake as well as lilo? TIA Steve-O EASY - No docs necessary! FDISK, FORMAT -- Sat Jan 4 07:00:00 EST 2003 7:00am up 3 days, 13:29, 3 users, load average: 0.54, 0.28, 0.31

Re: SV: [newbie] uninstalling Mandrake

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:08, Anders Lind wrote: 1. Make a bootable floppy (You will need 'fdisk' in there.) 2. Boot from that floppy, and at prompt, type: 'fdisk /mbr' (without quottes) This will remove lilo. 3. Then, run 'fdisk' and just delete linux partitions. It might work if fdisk finds

RE: [newbie] uninstalling Mandrake

2003-01-02 Thread A. Contreras
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 7:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] uninstalling Mandrake Pilagá wrote: El Jue 02 Ene 2003 00:17, Steve Mendizabal escribió: Anyone know

Re: [newbie] uninstalling Mandrake

2003-01-02 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 02 January 2003 06:56 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Steve Mendizabal wrote: Anyone know where I can find the docs to uninstall Mandrake as well as lilo? TIA Steve-O Good God man! thats blasphemy! REPENT!!! Apart from just wiping out the partition there isn't any more to it

Re: [newbie] uninstalling Mandrake

2003-01-02 Thread Mark Weaver
Steve Mendizabal wrote: Anyone know where I can find the docs to uninstall Mandrake as well as lilo? TIA Steve-O Good God man! thats blasphemy! REPENT!!! Apart from just wiping out the partition there isn't any more to it then starting your comp with a windows boot floppy, booting to an

[newbie] uninstalling Mandrake

2003-01-01 Thread Steve Mendizabal
Anyone know where I can find the docs to uninstall Mandrake as well as lilo? TIA Steve-O Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] uninstalling Mandrake

2003-01-01 Thread Pilagá
El Jue 02 Ene 2003 00:17, Steve Mendizabal escribió: Anyone know where I can find the docs to uninstall Mandrake as well as lilo? TIA Steve-O 1. Make a bootable floppy (You will need 'fdisk' in there.) 2. Boot from that floppy, and at prompt, type: 'fdisk /mbr' (without

SV: [newbie] uninstalling Mandrake

2003-01-01 Thread Anders Lind
1. Make a bootable floppy (You will need 'fdisk' in there.) 2. Boot from that floppy, and at prompt, type: 'fdisk /mbr' (without quottes) This will remove lilo. 3. Then, run 'fdisk' and just delete linux partitions. It might work if fdisk finds them, anyway I would suggest that you start up

[newbie] Uninstalling Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-10 Thread Mr Cripps
I'm looking to install Mandrake 8.0 as a dual boot system. I've got 2 hard drives -one which is 1Gb - which has Windows98 on it and is currently called C: and another 6Gb one which has been partitioned up into 2Gb partitions (so that my old Win95 could use it). This HD has partitions D: E: and

Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-10 Thread Matt Greer
on 9/10/01 12:41 PM, Mr Cripps at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my main question - if I install on F: and the disk is reformatted by Linux, how will I get Windows to eventually claim it back? Will it be easy, or am I committed? Will Win still recognise the HD as F:? When you install

Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Mandrake 8.0 install on small machine

2001-09-10 Thread Mr Cripps
? - Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Original Message - From: Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 7:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Mandrake 8.0 on 9/10/01 12

Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-10 Thread Mr Cripps
Matt and original poster, In a single word--no. Actually, you won't be able to remove the ext2 partitions with windows fdisk--what you've done if you clear the mbr first is provide yourself no way to get into linux (other than via a boot disk) to remove the ext2 partition information.

Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Mandrake 8.0 install on small machine

2001-09-10 Thread Matt Greer
on 9/10/01 1:46 PM, Mr Cripps at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Matt - sounds fine to me, although scary. I guess I'm just going to have to go ahead and install. Check for what Michael Viron had to say. My instructions were incorrect. Sometimes we think we know more than we really do :) I

Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-10 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 01:11 PM 09/10/2001 -0500, you wrote: on 9/10/01 12:41 PM, Mr Cripps at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my main question - if I install on F: and the disk is reformatted by Linux, how will I get Windows to eventually claim it back? Will it be easy, or am I committed? Will Win still

Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-10 Thread Michael D. Viron
Michael, sorry for you having to post it again - is there an archive of this list anywhere? Adam The list is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ for newbie and http://www.mail-archive.com/expert@linux-mandrake.com/ for the expert list. Michael -- Michael Viron