From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 11 22:01:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA00916 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:01:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA00911 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:01:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA19770; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:31:00 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id QAA35369; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:30:57 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:30:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: enrique m Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uninstalling freebsd (heaven forbid!) Message-ID: <19990112163057.V8886@freebie.lemis.com> References: <3.0.5.32.19990111214757.006b7d24@pop.slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990111214757.006b7d24@pop.slip.net>; from enrique m on Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 09:47:57PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 11 January 1999 at 21:47:57 -0800, enrique m wrote: > How do I uninstall FreeBSD? I don't know. I've never done it. More seriously, you don't uninstall an operating system, you install something else on top of it. You need to ask the people who make the new operating system how to do it. > I have attached lists of my drives, 0 being the first drive and 1 being the > second. I have tried to install FreeBSD on my second drive, above 1024 > cylinders, booting from the first. If this is not possible, I would like to > remove the boot manager. How do I remove the boot manager? Overwrite the first sector on disk. If you want to boot, you should overwrite it with some other boot manager. Again, not our call. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message