From: "Bryan W. Headley" <bwheadley@earthlink.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Rick Vernam <rickvernam@hotmail.com>,
parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] i dont know jack
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:41:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D407EB5.7030409@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1027637875.11669.19.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk
Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 16:43, Rick Vernam wrote:
>
>>i work at place that gets tons of computer junk from companies that are getting rid of their equip. one of our requirements is to kill the partitions on the HDs ( it is known that will no completely remove data, just make is a little more difficult to get too ). so we are getting HP machines with pa-risc stuff and most wont boot ( i know enough to know how to initiate a boot ). is there some way, using this parisc-linux that i can quickly kill partitions?
>>
>
>
> Well one silly way to do it would be to simply install Linux on the
> machines telling it to use the whole of the disks. At that point you can
> put "tested" on the disks 8) and "Free Debian Linux" on the marketing 8)
What, silly? Our admins used to prep Solaris workstations that way. Real
inexpensive way to differentiate your products ("our Pengiuns pre-hatched")
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Bryan W. Headley - bwheadley@earthlink.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-25 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-25 15:43 [parisc-linux] i dont know jack Rick Vernam
2002-07-25 16:19 ` James P. Kinney III
2002-07-25 16:29 ` Juergen Braukmann
2002-07-25 17:16 ` Ralf Hildebrandt
2002-07-25 20:54 ` Sandy Harris
2002-07-25 22:57 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-25 22:41 ` Bryan W. Headley [this message]
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2002-07-25 17:51 CARSON,KEVIN (HP-Canada,ex1)
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