On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Vladimir VRA09 Rakic wrote:
> Is it as simple as sticking a DOS disk in fdd and re-formatting the hdd or
> it's more involved then that ?

Sorry to hear you are reinstalling win98 - you'll be back!
Anyway, nothing special is required unless there is data on the disk you 
need to extract - then you should boot in single user mode (not sure of 
what this is in Mandrake - hit the tab key at the lilo prompt to find out 
- probably 
linux single
) which will allow you to change the password of the root user.

If there's nothing on the disk though it's just a matter of installing 
windows as if the disk was blank - ie install the windows install cdrom 
and boot using it.  It will delete the exisiting partititons and install 
it's dreadful stuff ...


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