what I like about SuSE
Todd Jamison
toddjamison@yahoo.com
Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:49:22 -0800 (PST)
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 <lucas7@home.com> 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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