Re: erase hardrive

From: Kevin Miller <atftb2@alaska.net>
Date: Thu Mar 29 2007 - 14:43:32 AKDT

Not really any need to wipe 'em is there? Whenever I've installed Linux
(SUSE & Debian) defining partitions was part of the process. I just
delete existing partitions and create new ones - or format the existing
one's if the partitions are set up appropriately already and I don't
want anything that's on them...

...Kevin

Shane Spencer wrote:
> 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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