Re: uninstall Debian
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 08:57, Nick wrote:
> I need to uninstall Debian so I can reinstall from scratch, how can I
> uninstall everything.
I've _always_ wanted to say to someone to just:
su
rm -rf /
And finally it is halfway reasonable advice! :-)
Seriously, do an 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' and a 'df' to see what your
partitions are at the moment and where they are mounted. Save that
information.
Use 'cfdisk /dev/hda' and delete the partitions that have Debian on
them.
Reboot from your Debian installation media (CD, preferably) and you will
be able to do a completely clean install of Debian.
On the other hand this is kind of a strange request. Very few
situations require a complete reinstall, and you should even be able to
do a reinstall over the top of the existing install, but it could
potentially be messy - the approach above will end up with a completely
clean system, but means losing your data files (under Debian - your
windows ones should be OK).
Regards,
Andrew.
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