From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron minnich To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] a problem I don't understand on a reinstall In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:54:00 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 71e24640-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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