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Point of clarification: This is with MS-DOS FDISK.EXE, of course. If you to do with GNU fdisk, you can specify "fdisk -mbr", if I'm not mistaken (possibly depending on the version. On 2000年2月22日, Douglas A. Weber wrote: >you need to run an fdisk with the /mbr switch. i.e. from a bootable floppy >with fdisk on it run > >fdisk /mbr > >This will format the Master boot record where Lilo lives and enable you to >have a clean start. At that point I would just go ahead with the linux >install. Good luck > >Doug Weber >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Michael Whitman" <michaelw@palawnet.com> >To: <plug@lists.nothinbut.net> >Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 1:56 PM >Subject: [PLUG] reformatting a disk > > >> What should i use to totally reformat a hard disk on which i have >installed >> LILO and RH linux. I tried to use DOS fdisk on a bootable floppy, but it >> didn't seem to be able to do anything with the linux partitions. I tried >> to install NT 4 ... and upon reboot it just hangs with a cursor and 'LI' >> (LILO remains?). My goal here is to totally purge the hard drive and do a >> fresh install of linux, and i would like to do it from a bootable >> floppy. The RH install program doesn't seem to give me the option to do a >> total reformat. >> >> >> Michael P. Whitman >> Programmer >> LAW.com >> >> >> >> mailto:michaelw@palawnet.com >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://plug.nothinbut.net >> Announcements - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug-announce >> General Discussion - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug >> > > >______________________________________________________________________ >Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://plug.nothinbut.net >Announcements - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug-announce >General Discussion - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug > Bill -- "Notice how altering $one in fact altered each element of @a. This is a feature, not a bug." -Schwartz & Christiansen, _Learning Perl, 2nd Edition_ Stop abusive software patents! Start typing http://www.noamazon.com ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://plug.nothinbut.net Announcements - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug