Other Help Topics :: Reformatting HD from DSL ROM



I've been enjoying DSL greatly.  Thanks for the great distro.
How may I use DSL (from CD) to reformat my hard drive.
I recently purchased a bare bones laptop and loaded an OS onto it that no longer want (since using DSL) and would like to use DSL to reformat (erase) my hard drive.  

Thanks  :) planotux
Open a terminal window run these two commands:
sudo su
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
This will erase the whole disk including partition table and MBR.
Thanks again.  DSL rocks!

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