Sorry, that message got cut short. Continuing... Thanks for your help Paul.
Unfortunately I couldn't open a terminal from the LiveCD. After further inspection I was able to determine that the CD only spins for five or so minutes after the computer boots, and after that point everything starts to freeze up and not work. I could open a terminal in the first five minutes usually, but l could never finish typing the commands before everything started freezing. I figured a USB couldn't do this, so I bought a 2 GB stick and used FUSBi to load gNewSense on it. As suspected, the USB made the OS act as normal. When I try to run sudo cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda1 though, I get "bash: /dev/sda1: Permission denied". I definitely put sudo there... Any ideas? Sent from my iPhone On Dec 26, 2010, at 3:20 AM, Paul O'Malley <omp...@eircom.net> wrote: > live cd > > terminal > > sudo cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda1 > > let it run for a few seconds > > this will kill the hard drive > > next up partition the disk using > > sudo fdisk /dev/sda > > p to print it should show no valid paritions > > create a large partition at the front of the disk > / make it bootable ext3 > and a 1 gig at the back end (for swap) > > type sudo partprobe to have the device re read > then type sudo fdisk -l > partitions should show up > > reboot (just so you know the partitions have taken > > install as normal > > (I've 15 years or more of doing this kind of thing and I had to do exactly > this last Wednesday) > > > > >> Thanks ahead of time for any help. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> ^^ seriously are you aware of the amount of apps on that device that might >> rat out your personal information to advertisers? >> > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704694004576020083703574602.html > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > gNewSense-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
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