uninstalling linux

[remix05]

how do u uninstall linux. I am having trouble using it and i want to install windows millenium can anyone help

[VIPER_1069]

not a linux expert here but maby formatting the drive would be faster than uninstalling linux and installing windows ME

but one word of advice here is if you have an option to go for windows XP then go for that as ME is not the greatest of operating systems to work with

[scarecrow]

Just delete your linux partitions, replace them by NTFS or FAT32 ones and then from your 2000 or XP CD use the recovery console and go "chkdsk/fixboot" (that is if you used LILO or GRUB as boot manager).
Oh, by the way what the heck is that "Windows Millenium"? You mean that old, odd 16-bit DOS with a pseudo-32 bit GUI?

[serjer]

better have tux instead of that crappy fatal error prone m$ Os

[chad97z]

Just boot to the Windows Me cd and it will give you the option to delete the file structure on the HD. But my advice to you, would be to not install Me. I would keep linux on one machine and run Win XP on your primary pc.

Linux has lots of great tools that cost a fortune in Windows. However, finding drivers for new or unique hardware is difficult in Linux since Linux does not generate as much revenue as Windows and since it is an accumulation of multiple software engineers spare time efforts in many cases.

If you are novice PC user though, and never really try to do technical things on a PC, and all you do is surf, email and maybe burn a cd, Windows is the way to go. Just think of how long it took Microsoft to get good media. Linux is not any different in that regard. Microsoft's video is much better since they are a team of orchestrated engineers and have been working on it a while.

I am curious though just exactly what you are having trouble with.. Linux is itself is an off shoot of Unix which is just text. No GUI. But Redhat for example can run something called X Windows on Linux. Start X windows by typing, "start x" from a command prompt. You might already know that.

[malcontent]

UNIX was text but they created the X Window system a while back (at MIT I think), as Linux is based on UNIX concepts (emphasise concepts, it has no System V code in it despite what crack-heads at SCO say) so they have their own implementation of X called Xfree86 or X11 (naming X sure is weird)