Doc, See the HowTo at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html for the formatting info. However, since there is not (that I know of ) an equivalent to the /s my opinion is to just reinstall SuSE 8.0 from the CDs and let it repartition/format the disk for you. Even in Windows you have to reinstall most of the OS from the CD since /s only makes the disk bootable. Only in the "good ole days" of DOS did /s do something really useful! Hope this helps. 73, Robert WB4DHC/DL4GRC Friedrichshafen Germany On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:12:02 -0400 doc <kd4e@arrl.net> wrote:
I cannot recall how to do the DOS equivalent of formatting a hard disk drive.
I have sold an older PC with SuSE 8.0 and need to do the equivalent of a "format /s c:" to get my stuff off it and to provide him with a clean start.
Thanks! doc
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Thanks to all three who offered suggestions. Turned out that if I booted from an old Win95 disk and ran fdisk I could delete the non-dos partitions, create a new single partition, then format c: /s Good to go. Good also to know the alternative methods! Will save those. Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e
run fdisk under windoz/dos ----- Original Message ----- From: <robertc@mindspring.com> To: "doc" <kd4e@arrl.net>; <Suse-ham-e@suse.com> Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 12:19 AM Subject: Re: [suse-ham-e] Formatting a HDD Under Linux
Doc, See the HowTo at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html for the formatting info. However, since there is not (that I know of ) an equivalent to the /s my opinion is to just reinstall SuSE 8.0 from the CDs and let it repartition/format the disk for you. Even in Windows you have to reinstall most of the OS from the CD since /s only makes the disk bootable. Only in the "good ole days" of DOS did /s do something really useful!
Hope this helps. 73, Robert WB4DHC/DL4GRC Friedrichshafen Germany
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:12:02 -0400 doc <kd4e@arrl.net> wrote:
I cannot recall how to do the DOS equivalent of formatting a hard disk drive.
I have sold an older PC with SuSE 8.0 and need to do the equivalent of a "format /s c:" to get my stuff off it and to provide him with a clean start.
Thanks! doc
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