[luau] Bizarre request

[Jeff Mings]

If you can't burn a Knoppix disk, perhaps you should just use a simple 
bootable floppy distro like Tom's Root and Boot at http://www.toms.net/rb/

-Jeff



Karen Lofstrom wrote:

>I've gotten in WAY over my head in an attempt to cobble together a working
>system unit out of bits and pieces. Combining 5-year-old and new
>components is tricky :( This would be fine if it were for me, but it's not
>-- it's for some poor neighbors who have contributed some money and time
>towards my efforts. So I feel that I owe them a working system. The only
>way I can see to do it, now, is to give them the Linux box that my brother
>gave me. It's an old AT-form-factor PII computer that was no longer worth
>upgrading. As soon as I get a job -- if I ever get a job -- I can assemble
>my own Linux box. And make do with just my recently upgraded Windoze box
>until then.
>
>Of course it would be nice to just hand them a Linux box, but I don't
>think they could handle it (the parents have eighth-grade educations).
>Plus they want to go online with AOL, play popular games, etc. So I've got
>to figure out a way to remove the SUSE OS and reformat the HD to Windoze.
>I'm stuck. Windoze fdisk won't remove Linux partitions, and an attempt at
>Linux fdisk from the command line, as root, failed. I can't get the system
>to remove itself!
>
>I faced a problem like this a few years ago, but I was able to back out
>with a Red Hat installation diskette.  I don't have it now; I gave my
>whole Red Hat set to a poor Chinese student. So what CAN I do to wipe the
>system clean? I have a SUSE boot disk but it just reverts to the regular
>HD boot.
>
>I know that removing Linux and installing MS is heresy. Revile me if you
>must, but help me revamp my Linux box so I can give it away.
>
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