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Kat

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Deleting Linux
« on: 17 August 2002, 02:37 »
I am just curious if i can delete my Linux partition with the Win 98 boot disk. I have the Mandrake CD, but i want to wipe both drives all at once. I'm sure i can, but wanted to make sure first. Don't worry, i am going to reinstall Linux, but i am moving it to another drive.

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« Reply #1 on: 17 August 2002, 02:48 »
yes you can. When you boot off the windows disk just run fdisk and delete the 'unidentified' partitions.
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« Reply #2 on: 17 August 2002, 03:15 »
Cool beans. Thanks.

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« Reply #3 on: 17 August 2002, 21:08 »
if you changed the master boot record, you will have to 'fdisk /MBR'

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« Reply #4 on: 17 August 2002, 14:16 »
Normally, it will show up on fdisk as a "NON-MSDOS" partition. Just enter its number and it will be re-writable upon reboot.  

Since we are on the topic, there is a way to write an "M$ fdisk blocker" using Solaris 8.  I did it at my M$-cocksucking "Visual Studio C++ NET is what you will be using on the job" after-I-got-ass-fucked-by-paying-up-front school, when I finished my last, and only, UNIX class.  I did it on three removable harddrives, and from what I hear, they are having a bitch of a time installing RedHat 7.2 due to a "certain student's modifications" on their harddrives.  I am too drunk right now to remember how I did it, but it is in my Solaris 8 book (Osbourne.) If I am sober tomorrow after golf, I will post my solution to the problem of UNIX formatted drives being re-DOSsed.

Unless someone posts it first.....either way it is fuck M$.
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