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From: stever@Octopus.COM (Steve Resnick )
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Installing OS/2 Over Another OS
Message-ID: <1990Dec4.201524.8772@Octopus.COM>
Date: 4 Dec 90 20:15:24 GMT
References: <1990Dec3.181139.28985@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <12048@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Reply-To: stever@octopus.UUCP (Steve Resnick )
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In article <12048@hubcap.clemson.edu> lsalomo@hubcap.clemson.edu (lsalomo) writes:
>You should be able to boot from a system floppy, then use the FDISK command.
>

Not really. If the disk partition is not marked as a DOS/OS2 partition then it
will not get deleted by FDISK. When I installed OS/2, I had already had UNIX
on the machine. Just for kicks, to sterlize the file system, I typed in
rm -r /

This did, in fact, kill the filesystem and the UNIX fdisk along with it; I 
couldn't delete my 200MB UNIX partition. I didn't want to destroy the
two DOS partitions on the disk by doing a low-level format (which was the
only way I could see of removing those partitions) so I used NU (Norton
Utility) to change the partition ID byte and made it a DOS partition. I was
then able to delete it and continue on.


Cheers!
Steve

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