On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Andreas Obl?nder wrote:
> Zitat von Christer Oldhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > At the point where partitions are prepared for Linux, I tried to get > > the installer to use 3 partitions I used a few years ago when doing a > > partial install of Woody (two ext2 and one swap partition). > > However, the installer found the old files and refused to continue, > > probably to prevent me from destroying an old installation. > > > > Is there an easy way to erase the data on these partitions? > > Two ways: > > either you will leave the Partitioning information intact, then you can > use "dd > if=/dev/null/ of=/dev/"name of partition here"" to overwrite every single byte > on the partition. Make sure they aren't mounted first. Simply doing mke2fs won't test the medium, nor will it wipe any sensitive data, but it would be faster. -f > or you can easily delete the partitions with afdisk > > Of course you have to pay attention when you use low-level tools like dd and > afdisk. > > You need a shell to enter theese commands. You should be able to switch to a > second console by pushing Alt-F2 or you choose the option from the > install-menue. > > Kind Regards > > Andreas Obl?nder > > > >
