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Hi, Anyone know how to uninstall Fedora Core 6? I have no other operating system on the computer. Any help would be appreciated!! Thanks...
  1. 10-08-2007 #1
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    Uninstall Fedora Core 6

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    Anyone know how to uninstall Fedora Core 6? I have no other operating system on the computer. Any help would be appreciated!! Thanks
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    Welcome to the forums!

    If you are going to install another distro, you can use the same partitions and simply install right over the Fedora installation.
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    I am uninstalling FC 6 because it doesn't see my wireless card or my printer and I don't have time to play with it right now. I want to reinstall Windows XP for now til my class is finished, then when I am done I can learn how to use the other OS. When I put the XP disk in it starts hardware configuration and stops there (goes to blank black screen) Any suggestions? Thanks!
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    Boot up Fedora and login as root. Open Terminal/Konsole and execute this
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    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=521 count=1
    Above code will wipe your Hard Disk and Windows Installation CD will work on reboot.
    In case it doesn't work, boot up Fedora again and replace hda with sda.
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    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=521 count=1
    It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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    The easiest option would probably be to boot into Linux by liveCD or floppy, and then invoke "dd":

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    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
    Running that code will wipe your hard drive and give you a fresh start.

    Let us know how it goes.
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    Ahh... that devils_casper is just too fast today!
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    I dont actually know anything about FC or linkux so opening the command or w/e it is is a big task in itself. but i do have 3 instilations discs for FC3 which im attempting to uninstall.
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    Boot up from Fedora Core Installation CD and type 'linux rescue' at boot: prompt. It will drop you at shell prompt. Execute dd command at shell prompt.
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