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From: wgentry@vt.edu (Miles Gentry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Removing freeBSD bootmanager?
Date: 22 Jan 1997 18:20:53 GMT
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Thanks.  this helps alot.  all my CS major friends thought it couldn't be done.

Miles
>
>Reboot the PC with a WIN95 startup floppy diskette in a: , then enter
>the command  
>     fdisk  /mbr 
>at the a:\ prompt. The "fdisk /mbr" command  will install the dos
>(master) block record on the hard disk containing the dos active
>partition, removing the FreeBSD bootmanager record. 
>
>mrb
>Bianchi                                              mbianchi@swbell.net
>
>     "Quality brings long term profits to any endeavor"