On Friday 03 November 2006 05:10 pm, Name Withheld wrote: > rm -rf / > > Yep, > I really did it. I was pretty angry at the time, about ready to take a very > large hammer in hand and reduce that old, obsolete i386 box to scrap. Easiest way to do this in a hurry is to use a kernal and small system installe on a USB flash drive that can be encrypted and boot from that. There is a grub boot floppy image in stable that will accomplish this if you can set the old box 'bios' to boot from the usb port. I have done this on newer equipment, never tried any thing older that an old 586 amd, Good luck. -- John W. Foster
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