Re: stripping linux from a box

[Jeff Green <jeff@cricinfo.com>]

DOS boot disk 
then 
fdisk /mbr

Agner-Nichols wrote:
> 
> My childrens' school has a machine with what looks to be a Debian
> installation
> with boot from the hard drive.  They want to strip Linux from the box and
> install the
> other OS.  Did the drop partition through fdisk.  But on reboot, instead of
> getting
> a no operating system found message, LILO kicks in and then dies with a
> kernel panic.
> I'm presuming that LILO wrote to the master boot record.  So how does one go
> about
> fully expunging Linux?
> 
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