uninstalling slackware

Scott B. Berry n7zib at tritel.net
Fri Oct 4 11:05:23 EDT 2002


I am more of a crfdisk user.  It just seems to make more sense to me.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 5:36 AM
Subject: Re: uninstalling slackware


> If all that's on the drive was linux, use the boot and root disks and log
> in as root.  Once you've done that, run linux fdisk.  hit p and return and
> find out what partitions are on the hard drive.  Then it's a matter of
> using deleet command in fdisk which is d, and giving everyone of the
> partition numbers you read earlier.  The partition numbers will be in the
> first column of the table produced by the p command.  Once everything is
> deleted hit upper-case w to write the disk and that should get you back to
> the root prompt.  At that point, make your decisions as to how you want
> to partition your disk and go from there.  I find fdisk easier to use than
> cfdisk personally.
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