[NBLUG/talk] Clearing hard drive

hayden hayden at pacific.net
Fri Jul 23 22:09:05 PDT 2004


Thanks Troy!

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From: "troy" <fryman at sonic.net>
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Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Clearing hard drive


> On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 09:47:11PM -0700, hayden wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > Getting ready for installfest tommorrow.
> > Can anyone tell me the key combination to strip the hard drive?
>
> You don't have to worry about that, as your disk can be formatted as
> part of the Linux install.  In general, though, you'd need some sort of
> boot disk (dos, win, whatever).  You'd use the boot disk to, well, boot,
> and then format or repartition your hard drive from there.
>
> > Also; any way to download e-mails from OE all at once?
>
> Your helper tomorrow can probably help you with that, although it
> backing up data isn't something we like to get into.  We'd certainly
> prefer it if anything you wish to keep is far, far away from the
> computer tomorrow ;-)
>
> I'll be glad to help out with saving your mail if needed, but I'd need
> to be in front of the computer since I'm too rusty to try and talk you
> through it via e-mail.
>
> -troy
>
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