From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <4BF0409F020000CC00025205@wlgw07.wlu.ca> Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 18:59:40 -0400 From: "Karljurgen Feuerherm" To: <9fans@9fans.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Wipe clean, start over Topicbox-Message-UUID: 25cf5180-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 well, can't boot from the hard drive (not bootable after all my fiddling, = apparently), and if i boot plan9 from the iso and user glenda, it tells me = i don't have the permissions to do it. and i don't seem to be able to do = cons -l /srv/fscons either (file does not exist...) K >>> ron minnich 05/16/10 6:46 PM >>> it's always been sufficient for me to cat /dev/zero > /dev/sdC0 or whatever. Blowing away the first couple hundred blocks seems to work fine. It does go out of its way to try to reuse what partitions it thinks it finds. but if it's all zeros there you are usually fine. ron