Carl Parrish wrote:
>thanks but its saying it can't find /mbr. Perhaps I should add more
>details. I have RedHat 9 installed on the harddrive. I have to format
>redhat off of the hd and put windoze 98 on it now. I *though* win98
>would just write over it but so far the windoze installer keeps freezing
>so I'm thinking that I need to use the linux fdisk first. (please
>correct me if I'm wrong).
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Hmm... My bad, linux's fdisk doesnt seem to have the /mbr option any more,
Boot from a linux CD (knoppix/whatever) and format/change the the
partitions from there.
I'd just delete them and write out the partition table and reboot.
JD
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