remove linux, and then install Windows XP
Paul Lussier
p.lussier at comcast.net
Wed Apr 26 21:41:01 EDT 2006
"Tom Buskey" <tom at buskey.name> writes:
>> One Google answer suggested that I can use "fdisk /mbr" to wipe the boot
>> record clean, but in rescue mode of Fedora Core 5, this (/mbr) seemed an
>> invalid option.
>
> 3) I think on the linux rescue you can also do something like:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=2048 count=1
Just to wipe the MBR you simply need to do:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
We actually have a script called 'refai' which does this, then issues
'reboot'. since all the BIOSes are configured to fail-over into PXE
boot, this will in fact, automagically re-install a machine via FAI :)
--
Seeya,
Paul
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