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Date:      Sat, 20 May 2006 20:15:38 -0400
From:      Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cleaning off unix/linux????
Message-ID:  <20060520201347.2D03.GERARD@seibercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org>
References:  <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org>

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Gary Kline wrote:

> 	Gang,
> 
> 	A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K
> 	on the drive) may be entirely good.  I am trying to avoid having
> 	to buy a DOS/Win platform.  I've had both W2K and FBSD or Ubuntu
> 	on this one machine.  For various reasons I need one DOS machine.
> 	(Already have 7 or 8 *Nix servers.)   The Windows 2000 
> 	"Professional" CD find some other non-Windows partition and 
> 	press "D" and "L" as I will, the installation CD keeps
> 	complaining.  Eventually I have to hit F3 to quit.  So, nutshell,
> 	is there any way I can completely remove any trace of *Nix?
> 	-----I remember having a DOS floppy and typing an undocumented
> 	MBR \ command that wiped the drive clean of this boot record,
> 	but this was [mumble] years ago.
> 
> 	thanks for any tips, y'all,
> 
> 	gary

Personally, I keep a copy of FreeDOS <http://www.freedos.com>; available
for just such an occasion. I am sure there are easier ways though.

-- 
Gerard Seibert
gerard@seibercom.net




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