Wipe HDD

jefro · 01-30-2019, 08:09 PM

"sometimes Mint has trouble installing to a drive" ohhh I get it. Yes. A few installers will seem to prevent one from installing over linux. Sometimes goofy round about way is to use the installer to remove and then reboot.

borgward · 01-30-2019, 10:51 PM

Yeah, that's what I did. Had the installer wipe the drive to get rid of LVM. I them shut down and rebooted. Gparted would not get rid of LVM. dd did not git rid of it either. Thought about doing fdisk. I used to partition a disk before installing but that was a long time ago.

borgward · 02-01-2019, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by mrmazda

My partitioning is always done in advance.

What method of partitioning in advance of installing do you use? fdisk? A long time ago I used fdisk to partition before installing. I would need to read up on fdisk if that is the way to go.

mrmazda · 02-01-2019, 10:11 PM

The only partitioner I've used for writing in the past two decades is not FOSS. Its name is DFSee. It uses a plain text interface that is identical regardless whether used in DOS, Linux, Mac, OS/2 or Windows.