RE: uninstalling slackware

RE: uninstalling slackware

[Tim Burgess]

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Hi,

fdisk /mbr

used from a DOS boot floppy should do the trick.

Cheers.

Tim

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  From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On
Behalf Of Bear in SFO
  Sent: 02 October 2002 06:02
  To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
  Subject: Re: uninstalling slackware



  You might have to zero fill your hard drive - well, at least the MBR
  There is a way you can clean the MBR with the DOS FDISK command but not
sure how good that works...

  --David

  At 09:26 PM 10/30/2002 -0800, you wrote:

                    Hello from brookston minnesota.
    I unstalled slackware8.1 and now when I try to reinstall it I get a
message telling me that I am parttition for linux when I am not.

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Re: uninstalling slackware

[Bear in SFO]

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You might have to zero fill your hard drive - well, at least the MBR
There is a way you can clean the MBR with the DOS FDISK command but not 
sure how good that works...

--David

At 09:26 PM 10/30/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>                 Hello from brookston minnesota.
>I unstalled slackware8.1 and now when I try to reinstall it I get a 
>message telling me that I am parttition for linux when I am not.

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Re: uninstalling slackware

[Alex Snow]

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fdisk /mbr will do the trick.
Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm sick of Winblows!
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bear in SFO 
  To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:01 AM
  Subject: Re: uninstalling slackware



  You might have to zero fill your hard drive - well, at least the MBR
  There is a way you can clean the MBR with the DOS FDISK command but not sure how good that works...

  --David

  At 09:26 PM 10/30/2002 -0800, you wrote:

                    Hello from brookston minnesota.
    I unstalled slackware8.1 and now when I try to reinstall it I get a message telling me that I am parttition for linux when I am not.

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Re: uninstalling slackware

[Jude DaShiell]

If all that's on the drive was linux, use the boot and root disks and log
in as root.  Once you've done that, run linux fdisk.  hit p and return and
find out what partitions are on the hard drive.  Then it's a matter of
using deleet command in fdisk which is d, and giving everyone of the
partition numbers you read earlier.  The partition numbers will be in the
first column of the table produced by the p command.  Once everything is
deleted hit upper-case w to write the disk and that should get you back to
the root prompt.  At that point, make your decissions as to how you want
to partition your disk and go from there.  I find fdisk easier to use than
cfdisk personally.

Re: uninstalling slackware

[Scott B. Berry]

I am more of a crfdisk user.  It just seems to make more sense to me.


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From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 5:36 AM
Subject: Re: uninstalling slackware


> If all that's on the drive was linux, use the boot and root disks and log
> in as root.  Once you've done that, run linux fdisk.  hit p and return and
> find out what partitions are on the hard drive.  Then it's a matter of
> using deleet command in fdisk which is d, and giving everyone of the
> partition numbers you read earlier.  The partition numbers will be in the
> first column of the table produced by the p command.  Once everything is
> deleted hit upper-case w to write the disk and that should get you back to
> the root prompt.  At that point, make your decisions as to how you want
> to partition your disk and go from there.  I find fdisk easier to use than
> cfdisk personally.
>
>
>
>
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uninstalling slackware

[bob]

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                Hello from brookston minnesota.
I unstalled slackware8.1 and now when I try to reinstall it I get a message telling me that I am parttition for linux when I am not.

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