Zitat von Christer Oldhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At the point where partitions are prepared for Linux, I tried to get > the installer to use 3 partitions I used a few years ago when doing a > partial install of Woody (two ext2 and one swap partition). > However, the installer found the old files and refused to continue, > probably to prevent me from destroying an old installation. > > Is there an easy way to erase the data on these partitions?
Two ways: either you will leave the Partitioning information intact, then you can use "dd if=/dev/null/ of=/dev/"name of partition here"" to overwrite every single byte on the partition. or you can easily delete the partitions with afdisk Of course you have to pay attention when you use low-level tools like dd and afdisk. You need a shell to enter theese commands. You should be able to switch to a second console by pushing Alt-F2 or you choose the option from the install-menue. Kind Regards Andreas Obländer
