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Date:      Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:49:43 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
To:        Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Getting RID of the boot manager
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010100848400.11877-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20001011121248.02154b70@64.20.73.233>

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> Once the boot manager is installed, how can we safely get rid of it.   I 
> can see where one might "dd" some garbage to the first 512 bytes on the 
> sector, but I want to be sure :)

	The best and quickest way I've found is fdisk /mbr with a DOS
disk... (one of the few things it can do right.) If you need a dos boot
disk check www.bootdisk.com

				Rick

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