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From: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@cs.montana.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Deleting BootManager?
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 12:18:33 -0700
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Janne P Kjellman wrote:
> 
>         I installed 2.1.0-RELEASE of FreeBSD and by mistake
>         got bootmanager on my HD. FreeBSD is only OS there,
>         so I want to get it of. Reinstall from scratch?

From the DOS prompt type "fdisk /mbr" which will restore your master 
boot record. I am assuming that you don't want to boot into your BSD 
partition in the future or you have a boot floppy.

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- Justin J. Ashworth
-- CS Student, Montana State University
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