Re: Yes, I really did it!
- From: David Clymer <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:28:26 -0500
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
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