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- From: tep@engr.uark.edu (Tim Peoples)
- Subject: Re: remove LILO?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.230105.11636@engr.uark.edu>
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- Organization: University of Arkansas
- Organiztion: University of Arkansas, Dept. of Computer Systems Engineering
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:01:05 GMT
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- chchen@stat (Ching-Hsiang Chen) writes:
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- >I am going to have a new 200mb IDE drive next week and my old 105mb IDE
- >will be in my wife's PC. I had installed LILO before I saw the backup
- >MBR caution in the LILO documentation. I am 99% sure that LILO had taken
- >over DOS MBR. Is the only way to remove LILO and Linux from my old IDE
- >to destroy all partitions setup (including my DOS partition)?
- >
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- If this isn't in the FAQ it should be.....
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- from DOS5 (at least) run "fdisk /MBR" to rewrite the DOS Master Boot Record.
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- | Tim Peoples | The time has come the hacker said |
- | tep@engr.uark.edu | to talk of many things, |
- | Dept. of Computer Systems Engineering| of simms and sockets and semaphores |
- | University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | of processes and pings.... |
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