Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[Marcos Lazarini <lazarini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 :-)

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Marcos Lazarini