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Re: Newbie installing Sarge on Amiga from CD




On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Andreas Obländer wrote:

> Zitat von Christer Oldhoff <coldhoff@swipnet.se>:
> 
> > At the point where partitions are prepared for Linux, I tried to get
> > the installer to use 3 partitions I used a few years ago when doing a
> > partial install of Woody (two ext2 and one swap partition).
> > However, the installer found the old files and refused to continue,
> > probably to prevent me from destroying an old installation.
> >
> > Is there an easy way to erase the data on these partitions?
> 
> Two ways:
> 
> either you will leave the Partitioning information intact, then you can
> use "dd
> if=/dev/null/ of=/dev/"name of partition here"" to overwrite every single byte
> on the partition.

Make sure they aren't mounted first.

Simply doing mke2fs won't test the medium, nor will it wipe any sensitive 
data, but it would be faster.

-f
 
> or you can easily delete the partitions with afdisk
> 
> Of course you have to pay attention when you use low-level tools like dd and
> afdisk.
> 
> You need a shell to enter theese commands. You should be able to switch to a
> second console by pushing Alt-F2 or you choose the option from the
> install-menue.
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> Andreas Obländer
> 
> 
> 
> 

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