Karen Lofstrom wrote:
Of course it would be nice to just hand them a Linux box, but I don't
think they could handle it (the parents have eighth-grade educations).
Plus they want to go online with AOL, play popular games, etc. So I've got
to figure out a way to remove the SUSE OS and reformat the HD to Windoze.
I'm stuck. Windoze fdisk won't remove Linux partitions, and an attempt at
Linux fdisk from the command line, as root, failed. I can't get the system
to remove itself!
I faced a problem like this a few years ago, but I was able to back out
with a Red Hat installation diskette. I don't have it now; I gave my
whole Red Hat set to a poor Chinese student. So what CAN I do to wipe the
system clean? I have a SUSE boot disk but it just reverts to the regular
HD boot.
1. The easiest way is to make a boot floppy using the following command
(must be in root):
/sbin/mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 `uname -r`
Reboot from the newly created boot floopy then do a /sbin/fdisk to
delete all the partitions.
2. Many AOL users believe they can't get away from Windows because of
their e-mail accounts. While Mozilla still cannot do AOL mails, you can
set up AOL accounts with Netscape.
3. I have a spare Athlon system, still very powerful (GHz level). Plse
let me know if you can use it. wayne
