Reformatting HD from DSL ROM

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Reformatting HD from DSL ROM
started by: planotux

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Posted by planotux on Dec. 01 2004,14:53

I've been enjoying DSL greatly.  Thanks for the great distro.
How may I use DSL (from CD) to reformat my hard drive.
I recently purchased a bare bones laptop and loaded an OS onto it that no longer want (since using DSL) and would like to use DSL to reformat (erase) my hard drive.  

Thanks   planotux

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Posted by skaos on Dec. 01 2004,15:10

Open a terminal window run these two commands:
sudo su
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
This will erase the whole disk including partition table and MBR.

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Posted by planotux on Dec. 01 2004,23:28

Thanks again.  DSL rocks!

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