Re: I can't beleive this
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
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From: ivan <ivan@freddie.vianet.net.au>
To: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>; ivan
<ivan@freddie.vianet.net.au>; grep@oriole.sbay.org <grep@oriole.sbay.org>
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
>>
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