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From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: how do I undo 386BSD boot blocks?
Date: 12 Feb 1993 04:30:19 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services
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In article <1993Feb12.010335.26398@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> kaleb@seaview (Kaleb Keithley) writes:
>In article pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) writes:
>>In article ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth) writes:
>>
>>fdisk /mbr
>>
>>That will over-write the master boot record to prepare it for DOS.
^^^
>First, not everyone has DOS.
But I was talking about DOS and that was clear.
> Some of us have OS/2, or some version of
>System V/386.
And if you do, you would say so. "DOS" means MS-DOS after all.
> I'm certainly not going to buy a copy of DOS just so I
>can 'fdisk /mbr', and I know on one would actually suggest that anyone
>make a bootleg copy.
And well you shouldn't since you don't want the DOS master boot record.
>Second, not everyone that has DOS has DOS 5. DOS 5 is the first version
>that has the /mbr option. See the above.
Please raise your hand if you run DOS prior to DOS 5.0 on a 386 and I will
gladly shoot you as the idiot you are. ("You" in a general sense...)
pauls@umich.edu