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Author: Lucas Vogel
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Subject: what I like about SuSE
Done! Thanks

Todd Jamison wrote:
>
> Make a win95 startup disk and reboot your pc. Boot
> your pc with the win95 floppy in the drive. When you
> get to the command propmt (A:\) type fdisk /mbr
>
> This will wipe lilo from your HD.
>
> Todd
> --- Lucas Vogel <> wrote:
> > My computer(WinNT) doesn't have fdisk. I tried
> > copying fdisk.exe from a
> > Win95 floppy but it wouldn't work, so I tried using
> > the format command
> > but it says /mbr is an invalid option.
> >
> > "James, Justin" wrote:
> > >
> > > when in a dos windows type fdisk /mbr to rid
> > yourself of lilo.
> > >
> > > Justin
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Lucas Vogel [mailto:lucas7@home.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 4:00 PM
> > > To: PLUG
> > > Subject: what I like about SuSE
> > >
> > > SuSE is the fourth distro I've installed on my
> > Linux partition(s), and I
> > > have to tell you-I have run into less problems
> > than I think I've ever
> > > had with any other distribution. The one thing I
> > absolutely love about
> > > it is that I've just now run into a couple of
> > dependency problems
> > > installing rpm's; before I was running into them
> > so often that
> > > installing a package sometimes took up to a couple
> > of hours because I
> > > had to install of the right packages. Of course, I
> > have nearly all of
> > > SuSE installed, so that probably accounts for
> > having all of the packages
> > > too. But for a big distro, it sure runs smart. The
> > only REAL problem
> > > I've run into is I still can't figure out how to
> > wipe my MBR clean so it
> > > will boot into Windows uninterrupted and I can use
> > my boot floppy to get
> > > in. But I think this is based more on my lack of
> > looking into it more
> > > than it is SuSE's fault.
> > >
> > > Anyone wanna buy a COL 2.2 distro? :)
> > >
> > > The newbie has spoken...
> > >
> > > Lucas Vogel
> > >
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