sheldonisaac
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Posted: Mar. 03 2006,02:21 |
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> !!!all in all I just want to wipe both my HD's completely > (including partions) and figure out which HD is which...!!!
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Maybe this:
Boot from the live CD of DSL.
Press f2 when the penguin appears (I think)
At the boot prompt, enter:
dsl vga=normal 2 norestore base
When you get a command shell prompt,
try this:
fdisk /dev/hda
m (tells you what keys do what)
p (shows all the partitions on the drive)
d (it'll ask which partition to delete)
tell it the number, eg 1 , meaning you want to delete the first primary partition on that drive
keep going until there are no partitions on that drive.
Then press
w
to write the changes to the disk.
tell it reboot, and again boot from the liveCD.
Again go to a command prompt.
fdisk /dev/hda, and see if all the old partions are gone.
When they are, create one or more new ones, and write the changes to disk.
Then mke2fs /dev/hda1 or whatever.
(Or, just boot to the GUI, and use a menu option to do, for example, a frugal grub install.)
You can wipe the 2nd hard drive with a similar method, ie fdisk /dev/hdb
If you're not sure which drive is which, do dmesg | more from a command prompt
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