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From: winans@xray.aps.anl.gov (John R. Winans)
Subject: Re: BSD removal help
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References: <1994May12.153240.1@chaos.antioch.edu>
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 14:16:39 GMT
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In article <1994May12.153240.1@chaos.antioch.edu> usmith@chaos.antioch.edu writes:
>Hello every one  I have this hard disk that had 386BSD installed 
>now I wish to reinstall DOS. HOW do I wipe the last fragments of
>386 BSD off the drive.    I used fdisk to erease and repartition
>thene I reformated with format/s  but the thing won't boot up
>	Any suggestions??   any help would be helpfull....
>usmith.antioc.antioch.edu

RTFF(aq) and use the /mbr option to fdisk to rewrite the boot sector.

--John

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