Re: Disklabel issues

[Thomas Leitner <tom radar tu-graz ac at>]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Donald Maner wrote:

> I am attempting to re-install Tru64 on a machine that currently has RedHat
> 6.1 on it.  I cannot re-disklabel the machine from the Tru64 installation
> CD.  It disklabel in Tru64 errors with "Partition 'a' is in-use; Cannot
> modify its size or location."  This is not true, as I have booted off the
> CD.  How can I wipe this drive clean?

I suggest booting up Linux to a shell prompt and doing a:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda ibs=128k count=10

Tom

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