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Name: Trog
Date: March 27, 2003 at 09:37:51 Pacific
OS: Mandrake 9.0, win 98
CPU/Ram: 233mhz 96mb
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How do i completly erase the linux portitions?



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Response Number 1
Name: 3Dave
Date: March 28, 2003 at 07:30:42 Pacific
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You can use windoze fdisk and just delete
them.


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Response Number 2
Name: Trog
Date: March 28, 2003 at 09:37:11 Pacific
Reply:

I tried that. It didn't work.


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Response Number 3
Name: unixhead
Date: March 28, 2003 at 13:15:08 Pacific
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1. Insert your "1st Installation CD", and re-boot.
2. At splash screen, press "F1".
3. Type "rescue".
4. Select "Go to Console".
5. Type "fdisk /dev/hda"
6. Enter "p" to get a list of your partitions.
7. Enter "d" to delete a partition.
8. Enter the number of the partition you wish to delete.
9. Repeat 7 & 8 until all the partitions you wish to delete have been removed.
10. Enter "w" to write the new partition table to your mbr.
11. Ctrl-alt-delte to re-boot.

I'm assuming you only have one hard drive. If you are deleting partitions from a second hard drive, you would enter "fdisk /dev/hdb".




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