Re: [TCLUG:1116] how to nuke Linux from HD

[Scot Jenkins <swjenkins@ibm.net>]

Tim Wilson wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've been experimenting with some of my Compaqs at school, and I need to
> install Win95 on one of them for some Samba testing. I've got a bootable
> Win95 floppy, and everything seems to boot OK. When I try to fdisk the
> drive so I can reformat for Linux, I can't erase the Linux swap partition.
> I can nuke the regular ext2 partition though.

Make sure swap partition isn't in use at the time you try to remove it. 
I usually run fdisk single user mode.

as root:  swapoff /dev/hda_   (where "_" is partition number)

Now continue with linux fdisk.
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