Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?
It's possible malware has corrupted that system too. In that event, on
another computer that can burn CD;'s download dban from freshmeat.net and
burn the iso onto a cdr cd not a cdrw. What dban does is to return all
hard drives on a machine to the condition they were in before anyone had
burnt any operating systems on them so this is a last ditch measure. If
you use dban at the boot: prompt type autonuke and hit enter. If you have
a 120GB hard drive it'll take at least 8 hours to do its work; larger
drives take longer. A debian system I had running got badly infected and
I ended up having to use dban to clear the problem.
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