On 5/16/07, Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 23:37 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote:
I am installing Win2k, which will co-exist with sarge
I believe sarge install lilo at mbr, this cause trouble for win2k's installation.
So I should clear mbr.
which linux command should I use?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
That will erase any MBR. If your drive is not /dev/hda then please use
the proper one (such as /dev/hde or /dev/sda or what have you)
Please remember also, that Windows REQUIRES the use of the first Primary
partition and it *WILL* assume it is the ONLY operating system to be on
the machine. This WILL cause you difficulty.
But you can then install Etch, and be happy.
I have found that W2K doesn't wipe out the grub menu tho XP does. And
installing W2K over grub shouldn't cause a problem, should it? It will
j ust overwrite the mbr. Is it really needed to do that dd command
before installing W2K?