Greg Folkert wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 12:43 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
On 5/16/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 23:37 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote:
I am installing Win2k, which will co-exist with sarge
I believe sarge install lilo at mbr, this cause trouble for win2k's 
installation.
So I should clear mbr.

which linux command should I use?
        dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1

That will erase any MBR. If your drive is not /dev/hda then please use
the proper one (such as /dev/hde or /dev/sda or what have you)

Please remember also, that Windows REQUIRES the use of the first Primary
partition and it *WILL* assume it is the ONLY operating system to be on
the machine. This WILL cause you difficulty.

But you can then install Etch, and be happy.

I have found that W2K doesn't wipe out the grub menu tho XP does. And
installing W2K over grub shouldn't cause a problem, should it? It will
j ust overwrite the mbr.  Is it really needed to do that dd command
before installing W2K?

I haven't installed Windows *anything* on my personal computers for
years. So, Dual booting just doesn't computer for me.

Left M$ Windows in 2000 for Debian and never looked back

Hugo


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