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Re: How to format a linux pc, in order to re-install win95 on it?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Guest section DW)
Wed Mar 8 16:41:38 2000

Message-ID: <20000308223812.B1711@win.tue.nl>
Date:   Wed, 8 Mar 2000 22:38:12 +0100
From: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
To: Hsaio-ping Lui <lui@wind.tamu.edu>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.20000308225153.006dc7d0@wind.tamu.edu>; from Hsaio-ping Lui on Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 02:51:53PM -0800

On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 02:51:53PM -0800, Hsaio-ping Lui wrote:
> Hi,
>   Anybody knows how to wipe away redhat 6.0 on a 486 pc, in order to 
> re-install win95 on it? I tried "fdisk", but it did not work....

I suppose you mean that it did not remove LILO.
lilo has an uninstall option, but you can also just wipe the MBR
with
	dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
where you should replace sda by the appropriate disk name.

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