Ok, in my years of computer experience I may know the answer to this question already but right now I can't think of it. I am remotely installing Gentoo to my home computer from work using a livecd full install. I currently use Gentoo at work so I am familiar with the install and stages. But for some reason the computer at home is giving me disk full errors. So I know if I was home I would just pop in WDClean and wipe the disk clean like it was brand new. (It did have windows on it beforehand.) But I'm not home, what command can I issue to clean this disk in it's entireity and start from scratch?

FnkDrSpok

Try:
fdisk /dev/hda (hda is the first hdd, b the second etc )
at the prompt enter "p"
this will show the current partitions, delete as needed. This is for IDE drives, for scsi, the drive names are different (your manual will have the info) but the procedure is the same.



Ahh caffeine just kicked in. For SCSI drives, the names are sda , b etc.

See, I did that already and whenver I tried to restart my installation I kept getting disk full write errors. Fdisk does not get rid of the data on the disk. I just sets up the partition tables. I ended up doing:

dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda

and it worked, I think, it didn't give me any errors as of yet. Thanks for the help tho.

FnkDrSpok