On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 08:08 -0600, John W. Foster wrote: > 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. If this is a 386, its highly unlikely that he has a usb port, let alone bios support for booting from it. -davidc -- gpg-key: http://www.zettazebra.com/files/key.gpg
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