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Old 07-23-2002, 10:25 PM   #1
nEoZeOn
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Uninstalling Mandrake 8.1 [lnx4win]


I installed Madrake 8.1 using the lnx4win option, letting the thing create a disk image on my FAT32 partition which it somehow opens up during boot and runs Linux. Now, I want to uninstall the thing, basically because during installation I choose the partition size to be 300MB and later found that that much space can't even fit all the Internet software. Anyway, I'm using Windows XP Pro, which does not support fdisk [the utility that some other threads refer when dealing with uninstallation.]

So how do I uninstall the boot menu [lilo] which unfortunately thinks that if I don't select anythin I'm happy to boot to Linux, which is not very good when u frequent the Windows Remote Desktop utility and have to remotely restart. Should I just delete the lnx4win folder [which contains the disk image file and some other linux files] or would that not remove the boot menu???

I need some good and quick suggestions...
 
Old 07-24-2002, 05:52 PM   #2
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If you installed the LNX4WIN option, then you shouldn't have any problems uninstalling... Windows should have made an entry for it in the 'Uninstall Software' thingy.

If that doesn't work, then you should be able to safely remove the relevant files (there should be the main 300Mb file and some files called something like loadlin) and edit the Windows boot-loader to remove the entry on startup (I haven't heard of LNX4WIN using LiLo... but don't quote me on that).

Hope this helps.
 
  


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