That is why when you insert the DOS disks (dos 6.22 for example) you dont just let it do what it wants to do... You can still hold the right hand shift key while starting and it will skip the boot files... You can then run FDISK manually to do what you want to...
will -----Original Message----- From: ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 9:24 AM Subject: Re: I can't beleive this >At 03:14 PM 3/14/99 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >>On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 08:05:11PM +0800, ivan wrote: >>> >>> George, I know you know that Windows _does_not_delete_ the "alien >>> filesystem" :) >> >>Try to install MS DOS 6.0 >> >>It will insist of *erasing* the complete disk, *repartitioning* it to one >>big partition, and then install DOS. > >Sincere apologies to all ... I stand corrected. > >Ivan. > >> >>It will NOT let you do anything else. It checks if there are other >>partitions, and won't install, but suggest to delete them. >> >>it says "the disk is not prepared for MS-DOS...." >> >>Thanks, >>Marcus >> >>-- >>`Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ >>Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP >Key >>http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID >36E7CD09 >> >> >>-- >>Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >/dev/null >> >> >> > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
