To uninstall Red Hat Linux from your system, you will
need to remove the GRUB or LILO information from your master boot record
(MBR).
In DOS, NT, and Windows 95 you can use
fdisk to create a new MBR with the
undocumented flag /mbr. This
will ONLY rewrite the MBR to boot the primary DOS
partition. The command should look like the following:
If you need to remove Linux from a hard drive, and have attempted to
do this with the default DOS fdisk, you will
experience the Partitions exist but they do not exist
problem. The best way to remove non-DOS partitions is with a tool that
understands partitions other than DOS.
You can do this with the installation media by typing linux
expert at the boot: prompt:
Select install (versus upgrade) and at the point when you should
partition the drive, choose fdisk. In
fdisk, type [p] to print out the
partition numbers, and remove the Linux partitions with the
[d] command. When you are satisfied with the changes you
have made, you can quit with a [w] and the changes will be
saved to disk. If you deleted too much, type [q] and no
changes will be made.
Once you have removed the Linux partitions, you can reboot your
computer using [Control]-[Alt]-[Delete] instead of continuing with the
install.
