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Re: booteasy removal

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Aug 13 18:17:20 1995

To: FooBunny <efoo@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Aug 1995 18:16:07 EDT."
             <199508132216.SAA00330@capstone.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 18:17:08 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>


Hi, you wrote:

> Hello.  How do I get rid of booteasy?  I'm trying to set up NetBSD
> on a friend's machine again (he tried to do it earlier himself but
> couldn't get it to work).  I've gotten the installation to work, but
> I'd like to use a different boot-loader besides booteasy (namely,
> OS/2's Boot Manager).  Problem is, I can't seem to get booteasy off
> the system; I don't see any boot partitions to delete like in OS/2.
> How can I get it removed so I can install the other boot manager?

Boot under DOS and run

	fdisk /mbr

That should get rid of booteasy.


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