I un-install linux by buying a faster PC and pitching the old one. That's
how I would do it. Since any one who would be removing PC for another OS
would need to upgrade in order to maintain the performance differences.
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From: Mark H. Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: uninstall linux
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Chris Knipe wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, rajput g v be comp 56 wrote:
> > >hi friends,
> > > Can anybody tell me how to un-install linux? i am not
> > >doing it ,just for the information.
> >
> > rm -rf /* ?
> [and so did several others]
>
> Tsk, tsk. What about password scavenging? Here's what I used when my
> employers issued a workstation upgrade:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdaN
>
> where N is set to each existing partition in turn. It gives interesting
> error messages when it finishes zeroing the root partition, so do that one
> last!
>
> (Okay, lots of intelligence agencies and large corporations could recover
> the signal after casual zeroing, but my stuff is not anything they'd be
> interested in, and anyway I don't have the MIL-SPEC for medium-security
> erasure patterns.)
>
> --
> Mark H. Wood, radical centrist OpenPGP ID 876A8B75
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> 01/01/00 00:00:00 -- Apocralypse Now
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