Thanks Dean.

At 05:43 AM 3/5/04 -0600, you wrote:
>I do find it unusual that you would see Mandrake on your Windows desktop.
>There should have been a boot loader installed at the end of the
>installation of mandrake that allows you to select between the two OS"s.
>I have Red Hat installed on this one, and everything seems to work fine,
>that is except my own brain. It is different to attempt another OS when
>one
>is only used to Windows.
>HTH
>Dean Kiley

Actually, I do have a dual boot option.  But when I try to boot to Linux, I
get that kernel panic message.  I want to get Linux off this windows box
and put it on its own box.  I have Acronis PowerUtilities, which I thought
did the same thing as Partition Magic?  I was hoping to simply select the
program and delete it using this Acronis, but nothing seems simple.

Diane

> > -----Original Message-----
>
> > > > Some time ago, I installed, from the boxed version,
> > > > Mandrake 8.0.  So, now on my desktop pc I have 98se
> > > > and linux.  I have never used Mandrake, so I'd like
> > > > to remove it.
> > >
> > >First, remove the Linux partitions using a partition manager such as
> > >Partition Magic.
> >
> > Thanks Carroll. I'll look into v9.x, but...
> >
> > I have Acronis Power Utilities.  I've been reading the Help files, but
> > nothing is making sense to me.  It's all in numbers and sectors and
> other
> > very technical stuff.  All I want to do is see where Linux is (out of
> > curiosity) and get it off my computer (out of frustration).
> >
> > I want to uninstall Mandrake because I can't get past the initial
> screen
> > that says kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
> > ...whatever that means.

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