Dennis Myers wrote:
>
> I'm reinstalling Linux due to stupidity. Now however, the installation
> stalls at "formatting hda1" it has already formated the other
> partitions. Hda1 is the / partition and so far it has been sitting there
> for an hour doing a 5-10 second blink on the HD light. Any suggestions?
> What is the command to do a clean wipe of the hard drive? Oh, yes I have
> tried rescue disk and other configurations of partitions. Nothing seems
> to work. A little help here! I'm seriously frustrated. Dennis
Dennis....You probably need to boot up with a rescue disc (I
use tom's rootboot from http://www.toms.net/rb/) and type:
fdisk /dev/hda
Then type p to list the partitions. Then type d to delete the
partitions (1 by 1 till there are none left).
Alan
