Re: remove suse
From: TokaMundo (TokaMundo_at_weedizgood.org)
Date: 07/14/05
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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:58:03 GMT
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:10:17 +0200, John Kloosterman
<JClosed_AD_netscape_DoT_net> Gave us:
>TokaMundo wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:43:52 -0500, "Angry American"
>> <angryamerican@n0spam.com> Gave us:
>>
>>
>>>My point was, I have never had a drive that could not be used for Windows or
>>>Linux. Parition tables are not rocket science, and any drive can be changed
>>
>>>from one to the other, unless the drive is bad.
>>
>>
>> Not when MS' Fdisk is involved. I have had several drives that
>> required me to use a REAL disk partitioning program to do the task
>> once Linux had been on the drive. That is also ALL I said. Simply
>> that if the drive was made into a Linux only physical disk,
>> Microsoft's Fdisk will refuse to remove the "non-DOS" partition.
>>
>> Are we on the same page now?
>
>There are occasions where fdisk wont work and even Partion Magic will
>stumble. Sometimes PM will give a "errored" disc or says the partition
>is "protected" or something. There is a simple way around however.
>
>This is the road i take and it have never failed me.
>
>To fix the mbr just use fdisk /mbr from a DOS boot floppy. I also have a
>CD with a bootable DOS floppy image (and a lot of other goodies) for
>computers not having a floppy drive.
>
>To delete the partition i mostly use cfdisk. It works sometimes in
>occasions fdisk wont work (dont ask me why).
>
>If all fails to delete the partition i take the "dirty road" and just
>pull out a Mandrake install disc and boot from it. After some setting
>questions you can jump straigth into a graphical partition manager. Just
>set up the partitions and save them. Stop there and just hit the reset
>key and all wil be fine.
That is exactly what I do.
> (i know, i know - this is a suse newsgroup -
They should get THAT partition manager, and integrate it into their
distro with a finish and reboot without install option! I am not
kidding... It IS the best!
>but the suse distro will jump straight into the install procedure after
>setting up the partitions as far as i know ... so dont bite me please :-) ).
No.. I have done it with suse too. If one has no suse capable
volumes, when it tries to jump into the install, it pukes, and returns
to the manager... Time to reboot right there!
>
>As i said - the above procedure never fails me, so no one has to have
>any problems.
I wish I could set up a knoppix disk with it on it... Hmmmm...
Where is that light bulb symbol when you need it!
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