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Re: Linux2Dos partition change

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From: Valerie Hall
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 00:00
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The only problem that you are likely to have is that LILO takes over the boot area 
of your hard disk and will try to load linux even after you have reformatted the 
disk. The only way to rid your disk of remenants of LILO you need to use a (GOD 
FORBID) undocumented DOS feature. The best way to reformat your HD to DOS system is 
to boot off a floppy (system) that *will* have fdisk, sys and format on it. Use 
fdisk to delete the non-DOS partition and format the HD then type "fdisk /mbr" (/mbr 
being the undocumented feature - make DOS master boot record). You may want to do a 
"sys c:" to transfer system files. Reboot your system and c:\ should appear.

Good luck.

Val.
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Date: 1996/05/17
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