From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] a problem I don't understand on a reinstall
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:54:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310171653080.12875-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1AAKon-000LSs-LJ@t40.swtch.com>
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Russ Cox wrote:
> first, use the bleeding-edge cd-rom,
> just in case it has a fix that you need.
> (but i doubt it does).
No, I was using that CDROM and still saw the 'historical partitions'.
> when you get into the install at the beginning,
> draw a new window and
>
> cp /dev/zero /dev/sdC0/data
That did it. There's nothing like splating the disk with zeros to clean up
things. Nice, clean oxide oersteds.
ron
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-17 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-17 2:50 ron minnich
2003-10-17 2:58 ` Russ Cox
2003-10-17 11:41 ` [9fans] My Eu paper, mark 2 John DeGood
2003-10-17 22:54 ` ron minnich [this message]
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