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Re: [Linux-scsi] Re: How to format a linux pc, in order to re-install win95 on it?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Thomas)
Wed Mar 8 16:59:44 2000
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 08:57:20 +1100
From: Jason Thomas <jason@topic.com.au>
To: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Hsaio-ping Lui <lui@wind.tamu.edu>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Message-ID: <20000309085720.C20397@topic.com.au>
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boot dos/win95 from a floppy run "fdisk /mbr" and this will reinstall the
master boot record. and lilo will be gone.
Guest section DW [dwguest@win.tue.nl] wrote:
> 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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