On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: > I have a requirement to remove Debian from one of our workstations and > re-install DOS/Windows (Horror!) > How do I do this? > Thanks in advance > Stephen Lavelle > > > Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd. > ~ Australian Tanned Wet Blue Leather ~
Assuming you don't want to preserve any of your Debian setup, just insert Disk 1 of a set of DOS 5 or higher disks and hit the ol' Microsoft button (Reset). The setup routine will repartion/format/install DOS. If you want to do it more manually, boot off of a DOS/Win95/98 boot floppy that has the fdisk.com, format.exe, and sys.com files on it. 1) Run fdisk and delete all the existing Linux partitions and create DOS partitions. You may need to run "fdisk /mbr" also to "reclaim" the master boot record for DOS's use. Reboot if necessary, off the floppy. 2) Run "format c: /s /v" to format drive C:, verifying as you go, and copying the boot system to the hard drive. If you should forget the "/s", you'll have to "sys c:" after the format is complete. 3) Pop out the floppy and reboot. You now have a minimal DOS system. Since you didn't specify what version of DOS/Windows, that's as far as I'll take you. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC!
