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Article #58664Re: Linux2Dos partition change
From: Valerie Hall
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,45096f1ab2bf4861 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: Valerie Hall <hall_v@kula.usp.ac.fj> Subject: Re: Linux2Dos partition change Date: 1996/05/17 Message-ID: <1996May17.212756.1960@usp> X-Deja-AN: 155288996 references: <31895650.3651@ctt.bellcore.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: University of the South Pacific mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: aus.computers.linux x-mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit)