On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:11:57PM -1000, Karen Lofstrom wrote:
Windoze fdisk won't remove Linux partitions, and an attempt at
Linux fdisk from the command line, as root, failed. I can't get
the system to remove itself!
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=512 reboot
IIRC, I mentioned a similar
: [luau] Bizarre request
I've gotten in WAY over my head in an attempt to cobble together a working
system unit out of bits and pieces. Combining 5-year-old and new
components is tricky :( This would be fine if it were for me, but it's not
-- it's for some poor neighbors who have contributed
Karen Lofstrom wrote:
Of course it would be nice to just hand them a Linux box, but I don't
think they could handle it (the parents have eighth-grade educations).
Plus they want to go online with AOL, play popular games, etc. So I've got
to figure out a way to remove the SUSE OS and reformat
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
3. I have a spare Athlon system, still very powerful (GHz level). Plse
let me know if you can use it. wayne
Wayne, that's kind of you, and I may ask if I run into some more
*deserving* *poor* folks. But I don't feel completely happy with my
I've gotten in WAY over my head in an attempt to cobble together a working
system unit out of bits and pieces. Combining 5-year-old and new
components is tricky :( This would be fine if it were for me, but it's not
-- it's for some poor neighbors who have contributed some money and time
towards my
If you can't burn a Knoppix disk, perhaps you should just use a simple
bootable floppy distro like Tom's Root and Boot at http://www.toms.net/rb/
-Jeff
Karen Lofstrom wrote:
I've gotten in WAY over my head in an attempt to cobble together a working
system unit out of bits and pieces.
