>On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Jochen Schulz
<ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
>
>Why do you think you need to blank the partition before installing
>lenny? There *are* reasons to do that, but they have nothing to do with
>the installation of a new OS.
Just a habit I've acquired over the years - I like to have the hdd blanked with zeros to ensure there are no ghost/residual files left on any of the sectors before installing anything.
Mark