Re: erase hardrive

wipe

On 3/29/07, terrance thomascik <tthomascik@alaskalife.net> wrote:
>
> For fun -
>
> What's and where can I get a program to clean a hardrive to prep for linux.
> These are old computers from a friends business. 10 gig hardrives.I'll be
> looking inside at the Friday meeting to see if anything is worth doing.
>
> Personal issue -
>
> I installed (toshiba laptop ) suse 10.2 next to my suse 9.3 and can no longer
> get my suse 9.3. to load at all. The toshiba has a win modem so I use a 3
> com modem for dialup. worked great.
>
> Suse 10.2 may not ( 3 com ) support it, it recognized it not as a modem but
> as a ethernet card instead. How can I get it to recognize it in the proper
> place if possible. If I can't solve that, then I need to go to another
> distro.
>
> I cleaned the hardrive by rescue disk for windows xp. So now I have to change
> the boot process to let my cd/dvd drive boot 1st. Presently it goes to hard
> disk. I'll keep xp only for scanner activities and misc issues.
>
> I have Gparted on a distro. I'd like to install suse 10.2 or madriva 2007 or
> kubuntu 5.10
>
> I read in the suse 10.0 bible that suse dropped some of the supported modems
> because of licensing. What worked on 10.0 may not work on 10.1 and so on.
>
> Friday meeting -
>
> pizza or cheese cake ( costco )
>
>
> Terry T
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Received on Thu Mar 29 14:32:45 2007