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From: cae@cae.ny.jpmorgan.com (Caleb Epstein)
Subject: Re: HELP! I need to kill BSD!
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 16:07:01 GMT
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john@heights.demon.co.uk (John Shiali) wrote:
| 
| I have a question for - how do I wipe the bootstrap from a PC that
| has had BSD unix partially installed? I have tried using fdisk, which
| doesn't work - it still tries to boot up even though the disk has been
| formatted in DOS - help!

	If you have DOS 5.0 (or 6.x, I guess), use "fdisk /mbr" which
will overwrite the Master Boot Record on your boot drive.  From this
point forward, your PC should boot DOS rather than BSD.  Pity.

| Mail me if possible, and thanks in advance...

	Hope this helps.

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[ cae@jpmorgan.com ][ Caleb Epstein ][ JP Morgan & Co. Incorporated ][ NY, NY ]