We have Suse 9.0 installed on a desktop here at work. It was installed to test the Manhattan online education app. We now need to remove Suse 9.0 from that machine -- is it possible to do so without harming the Win98 also on the same HDD? Do we have to backup what we need to save, format the HDD, then reinstall Win98 alone? The College is unfortunately MS-centric so they don't like Linux on any of their hardware. ;-( -- Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e West Central Florida 100% Linux. Suse 9.1 Drake, Hallicrafters, Heathkit, TenTec, Yaesu Radio Life: http://www.gospelcom.net/twr/ Linux-Incompatible hardware is defective! USA Pres. Election 2004: http://www.rnc.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Haven't done that, but try this:
I assume WIn98 is on the primary partition. If so, blow away the SuSE
partition, then boot with a 98 boot diskette and do a sys.com against the c:
drive. This should restore the boot file for DOS/WIn98. I'd not jump on this,
wait and see if someone has another approach but that should work.
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<<JAV>>
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From: doc
We have Suse 9.0 installed on a desktop here at work. It was installed to test the Manhattan online education app.
We now need to remove Suse 9.0 from that machine -- is it possible to do so without harming the Win98 also on the same HDD?
Do we have to backup what we need to save, format the HDD, then reinstall Win98 alone?
The College is unfortunately MS-centric so they don't like Linux on any of their hardware. ;-(
-- Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e West Central Florida 100% Linux. Suse 9.1 Drake, Hallicrafters, Heathkit, TenTec, Yaesu Radio Life: http://www.gospelcom.net/twr/ Linux-Incompatible hardware is defective! USA Pres. Election 2004: http://www.rnc.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The Monday 2004-09-20 at 20:53 -0400, doc wrote:
We now need to remove Suse 9.0 from that machine -- is it possible to do so without harming the Win98 also on the same HDD?
You only need to uninstall grub or lilo, usually by running "fdisk /mbr" from MsDOS. Then, you may reformat the linux partition to reclaim that space, or leave it there hidden just in case you want it one day ;-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 17:56, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2004-09-20 at 20:53 -0400, doc wrote:
We now need to remove Suse 9.0 from that machine -- is it possible to do so without harming the Win98 also on the same HDD?
You only need to uninstall grub or lilo, usually by running "fdisk /mbr" from MsDOS. Then, you may reformat the linux partition to reclaim that space, or leave it there hidden just in case you want it one day ;-)
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Silly me I forgot you can probably use a boot disk and keep the *nix. As I remember there is a backup mbr you can use from *nix to restore. Then make the boot disk with the rescue program on CD 1. -- _______ _______ _______ __ / ____\ \ / / ____|_ _\ \ / / | | \ \ /\ / / (___ | | \ \ / / | | \ \/ \/ / \___ \ | | \ \/ / | |____ \ /\ / ____) |_| |_ \ / \_____| \/ \/ |_____/|_____| \/
The Thursday 2004-09-23 at 20:27 -0700, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
You only need to uninstall grub or lilo, usually by running "fdisk /mbr" from MsDOS. Then, you may reformat the linux partition to reclaim that space, or leave it there hidden just in case you want it one day ;-)
Silly me I forgot you can probably use a boot disk and keep the *nix. As I remember there is a backup mbr you can use from *nix to restore. Then make the boot disk with the rescue program on CD 1.
Lilo does make a backup of the mbr or other boot sectors it overwrites; but grub doesn't. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
* doc
We have Suse 9.0 installed on a desktop here at work. It was installed to test the Manhattan online education app.
We now need to remove Suse 9.0 from that machine -- is it possible to do so without harming the Win98 also on the same HDD?
Do we have to backup what we need to save, format the HDD, then reinstall Win98 alone?
You do not say whether you altered the mbr, but deleting/reformatting the linux partition will remove linux. Then boot from a windoz boot disk and do: fdisk /mbr to restore windoz default mbr. Remember to reformat the linux partition as vfat. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos
doc wrote:
We have Suse 9.0 installed on a desktop here at work. It was installed to test the Manhattan online education app.
We now need to remove Suse 9.0 from that machine -- is it possible to do so without harming the Win98 also on the same HDD?
Do we have to backup what we need to save, format the HDD, then reinstall Win98 alone?
The College is unfortunately MS-centric so they don't like Linux on any of their hardware. ;-(
You can just delete the partitions containing Linux and using a DOS or Windows boot floppy, run fdisk /mbr to restore Windows boot. You can then format the empty space as another partition, or resize the Windows partition, to fill the disk (backup first).
James Knott wrote:
doc wrote:
We have Suse 9.0 installed on a desktop here at work. It was installed to test the Manhattan online education app.
We now need to remove Suse 9.0 from that machine -- is it possible to do so without harming the Win98 also on the same HDD?
You can just delete the partitions containing Linux and using a DOS or Windows boot floppy, run fdisk /mbr to restore Windows boot. You can then format the empty space as another partition, or resize the Windows partition, to fill the disk (backup first).
Just don't forget a simple fact: if you remove/reformat/repartition your disk, remember to create a Win98 boot disk *before* rebooting - there is a big change that grub will be completely lost (/boot/grub/menu.lst missing or removed), and won't boot anything. Of course grub has built-in menu so you can handle situations like that; better avoid if possible. If you have another computer available, well... much easier :-) -- Marcos Lazarini
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