Sounds stupid, I know.

My boss has decided that he doesn't want me farting around with linux on a spare PC anymore, so I have to wipe the thing... I guess he feels threatened that I know something he doesn't

Anyway, how do I go about it?

I did the newbie-that-thinks-he-knows-what-he's-doing thing and ran "fdisk /etc/hda" and removed the partition thinking that would be a quick way, but low and behold, the damn thing booted like nothing happened!

So then I was like "well this won't get rid of it, it will just fuck a lot of stuff up, but let's see what happens anyway because it's not like I get to play with this anymore" so I ran "rm -rf /".

After rebooting again, it loads linux from LILO, detects yada yada, and hangs at "Warning: unable to open an initial console."

So how do I get this thing off of here?

Thanks!

PS: Would running fdisk from a DOS bootdisk work?

Yes, fdisk from DOS should work

I can't see how
fdisk /etc/hda
would have done anything, though ;)



Cheers,
Tink

DOS boot disk did it, yeah. Thanks.

I thought deleting the partitions through fdisk /etc/hda would have done it. I did notice afterwards that if I tried to run fdisk /etc/hda again it told me /etc/hda didn't exist. Weird.

Hehe, it's /dev/hda not /etc/hda.

er... yeah, that's what I meant

man, this sucks. I was having a lot of fun learning linux.

Install qemu on your machine and keep on
hanging on ;)


Cheers,
Tink

Learn Linux with KNOPPIX.... Then your boss will never know you were using linux!

Unless of course he happens to walk into the
office and wonders what happened to the
start-button ...



Cheers,
Tink

lol your boss is mean.

well there is a "skin" for kde called TuXp and looks just like Win XP, so you can use Linux just in front your boss a and will didn´t notice