if the fdisk info is stored in Master Boot Record
fdisk from DOS will be effective.( try fdisk/MBR)
Otherwise booting from the CD and deleting is the way
to do this.
L.Gangadhar.
Soumyajit Deb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've tried it not once but twice. AFAIK fdisk can delete any partition of
any filesystem
Soumyajit Deb
IIIT Hyderabad
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, D. K. Gayen wrote:
> Have you actually tried it? I have never succeeded in deleting a linux
> partition with DOS fdisk it always gives some error message.
>
> Gayen
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Soumyajit Deb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 8:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Re: uninstall]
>
>
> >
> > On a more serious note, if the second OS is windows most certainly it
will
> > be to the primary partition with linux in a logical partition in the
> > extended. To remove linux, the linux partition has to be simply deleted
by
> > a DOS utility like fdisk and then the partition formatted to FAT16/FAT32.
> > There is no need to boot from the Linux CD again to delete the
partitions.
> >
> > Soumyajit Deb
> > IIIT Hyderabad
> >
>
>
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