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From: mcurry@fred.net ( )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Removing freeBSD bootmanager?
Date: 23 Jan 1997 01:31:30 GMT
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Miles Gentry (wgentry@vt.edu) wrote:
: I'd like to remove the freeBSD bootmanager.  freeBSD was installed on the 
: second partition of a win95 machine, now the computer needs to be win95 only 
: and they want the bootmanager removed.  I dumped freeBSD and the whole 
: partition it was on, but now I can't get rid of the bootmanager.  Is there 
: anyway to kill it completely, other than wiping the whole hard drive and 
: starting over?

Won't fdisk /mbr work?