Subj : Re: Removing Linux boot
To   : Tom Laermans
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Thu Aug 10 2000 07:16 am

1) I LIKE Corel Linux... but I haven't been able to get my network adapter
(Xircom PC Card) to work under any Linux that I've tried... and I really need
Internet and network access to be productive.

2) No, W2K has no Fdisk.

3) What I may end up doing is run the W9x Fdisk /mbr... then run the Win2K
Setup's Repair module and see if that will restore the MBR for NT/W2K. Or I may
just leave well enough alone-- leaving the LILO boot manager is not that big a
deal.

-=> Tom Laermans wrote to Alan Zisman <=-

 TL> Hi Alan ...

 TL> At 06-Aug-00 14:44:06, Alan Zisman wrote to All about Removing Linux
 TL> boot...

 AZ> I'd like to remove the Linux partitions, restoring the space to my
 TL> Why? Just remove Corel Linux and install SuSE or Mandrake <<g>>

 AZ> W2K partition... which I could do easily with PM-- but that would
 AZ> still leave the LILO boot manager in place.
 TL> Doesn't partition magic have that option too, of restoring the boot
 TL> record?

 AZ> On a Win9x system, I would remove that, using FDISK /MBR, but I
 TL> Exactly what I was going to suggest :-)

 AZ> suspect doing that to a WinNT/2K system would leave it
 AZ> unbootable-- at least to Win2K.
 TL> Umm.. No Fdisk with Win2K?? 2K's fdisk should work? (or maybe there
 TL> isn't one, don't have anything higher than W98 FE)

 TL> You could try doing that anyway... or maybe boot into linux and use the
 TL> dd utility to copy the W2K mbr from a floppy's mbr to your hard drive's
 TL> mbr area?

 AZ> Am I going to have to boot to the W2K install CD-ROM, and run the
 AZ> repair module? Will I have to re-install SP1 after that? Or is
 TL> I dunno...

 AZ> that when I get to use the unbootable Emergency Recovery Diskette
 AZ> (see previous message)?
 TL> Seeing as it won't boot, you won't have a lot to do with it :-)

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