Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Simon Roberts <thorpflyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fair enough, so it's not just me then.

This time, I booted the install CD, went to the Ctrl-Alt-F2 screen
which has a root prompt and did:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hde1 bs=1GB count=150

to each drive. Hopefully it'll all come out clean this time!

Cheers,
Simon


--- Carl Hartung <suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wednesday 31 August 2005 23:29, Simon Roberts wrote:
> <snippage>
> > Bizzare, or what?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Simon
> 
> Hi Simon,
> 
> I was about to write you about some personal experiences on this
> subject, but 
> I don't have time today. However, I _can_ share the "punch line":
> "That's why 
> it's called a "clean" installation. You have to clean the old data
> out of the 
> target partition(s) before installing."
> 
> regards,
> 
> - Carl
> 
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