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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!data.ramona.vix.com!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Killing a FBSD partition properly...? Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 06:18:03 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <337B0D0B.237C228A@FreeBSD.org> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.970515000427.13519A-100000-100000@pheebs.citytel.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: "Keith W." <kwoody@citytel.netNO-SPAM> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40936 > Is there a proper way to kill the current BSD partition on drive c? > Can I just run Partion Magic and turn the drive back into a 420 meg dos > drive, killing the fbsd partition? Yeah, that'll do it. > Will boot mgr be a problem when I go and install bsd onto drive d:? I > assume that once I toast the bsd partition on drive c that bootmgr will > still be there asking which drive/os I want to boot into even though BSD > will no longer be on drive c:? No, it won't even see the partition as a FreeBSD one once you make it a DOS extended part. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.