[olug] Corel Linux Reformat

Phil Brutsche phil at giedi.obix.com
Mon Sep 10 17:45:54 UTC 2001


A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of a way I can reformat my Corel Linux box back to
> Windows95? (Normally I wouldn't do this, but I don't think my 90
> year-old grandfather is ready for Linux!). There is a DOS prompt
> option on startup, but if you choose that option, it just says
> "non-system disk error, press any key when ready" and goes back to the
> menu. Since I can't even get into DOS, I can't begin to imagine how I
> would do a reformat. (It's a Pentium 75 with 48 MB of RAM).

Ah... similar to Mike Peterson's problem.  Simple: use "dd" from a Linux
rescue CD to zero the first meg of the hard drive.


Phil


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