I think it will work myself. At least the buyer will be able to
immediatley use the harddrive entirely as a dos drive(partitioned)
Since I've got the original Seagate installation disks I think he can than
reformat the whole thing from scratch.
Thanks for the advice
John
>From: Jeff Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: HOW? convert Linux Partition back to DOS
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 14:57:26 -0400 (EDT)
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>According to John Kennedy:
>>
>>
>> I fellow is buying my dual booted machine (Win-Nt & Redhat 4.2)
>> and I think he'd be better off with just NT.
>>
>> Can I convert it back to all NT/DOS if I
>> use the GUI/ Linux File System Manager to
>>
>> a. change the 'type' to '*vfat'
>>
>> and
>>
>> b. use the same Linux File System Maager to Re'Format in DOS/vfat
>>
>>
>> Is this the best quick and dirty method??
>>
>
>Sounds like it should work.
>
>> I've never had to remove a Linux operating system from a harddrive.
>>
>> He is coming in one hour?
>>
>
>Better practice:->
>
>73 de Jeff
>
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