[AuckLUG] Burn My Hdd ,Please

[Temu]

I use a tool from Darik's Boot and Nuke for short DBAN here is the address 
http://dban.sourceforge.net/ this works for me.

Temu

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald Johns" <ronaldj at orcon.net.nz>
To: "Auckland Linux User Group mailing list" <aucklug at linux.net.nz>
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 9:31 PM
Subject: [AuckLUG] Burn My Hdd ,Please


> Hello,
>      I an ashamed ,yes I am to lay such a stupid and low level question 
> before the wizzards of Linux  , but lay it I must.
>
> In my search for Linux Logic I have taken to installing various distros on 
> various HDDs untill I have multiple Hdds full of Fedora,Red Hat 
> Suse,Debian,Mepis etc in the hope that I will find one distro that does 
> most things.So far no luck.
>
> Unfortunately I STILL need evil M$ to carry out mundane and basic tasks 
> such as running my printer/scanner.Pity bout that Linux being SO GOOD.
>
> I have now got to the point where I have several HDDs with bits of ex3 
> partioning etc scattered around them and no hope of re installing M$ which 
> refuses to look at the HDDS.
>
> I have fdisk'ed formatted and otherwise burned these HDDs until they smoke
> and while some of them will still install some Linux distros ,absolutely 
> none of them will take a Win98 install.
> So what you ask , luck you you say , yes that well that would be fine if 
> linux did what it promised , but it wont , I need double boot with at 
> least Win98 Fat32 to run some of my equipment and I must burn these HDDs 
> back to Fat32 to do it.HOW ???
>
> Come on
> Please
> I need this
> gaspode
> P.S. I seem to recall being flamed for putting stuff in the wrong place 
> here ; if I'v done it again ,so sorry....g
>
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