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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Killing a FBSD partition properly...?
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 06:18:03 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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> Is there a proper way to kill the current BSD partition on drive c?
> Can I just run Partion Magic and turn the drive back into a 420 meg dos
> drive, killing the fbsd partition?

Yeah, that'll do it.

> Will boot mgr be a problem when I go and install bsd onto drive d:? I
> assume that once I toast the bsd partition on drive c that bootmgr will
> still be there asking which drive/os I want to boot into even though BSD
> will no longer be on drive c:?

No, it won't even see the partition as a FreeBSD one once you make it a
DOS extended part.

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.