Re: [orca-list] Getting to the boot menu to install Linux

["John G. Heim" <jheim wisc edu>]

If you wipe the hard drive, it has the same effect as disconnecting it. 
If it's booted into Linux you can use dd to do that. For example, if 
your hard drive is /dev/sda, you would type this:


dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 count=10000


I don't know how to do it in Windows.


On 8/29/21 9:12 PM, orca-list gnome org wrote:
> Okay, so it sounds like that, even if one were comfortable opening up
> and temporarily disconnecting the harddrive, the best you could do
> without a monitor and a functioning eyeball is:
>
> 1. Disconnect hard drive.
>
> 2. Boot live media.
>
> 3. change the boot order from the live environment
>
> 4. shut down.
>
> 5. reconnect the hard drive.
>
> 6. boot the install media
>
> And repeat this rigamarole every time you want to do a clean install
> or boot a live environment to create/restor a back up of your system
> partition or do other rescue tasks... and that's assuming the
> temporary change to the boot order can survive a cold boot.
>
> Anyone else feel like slapping whoever's responsible for the broken,
> industry standard default with a fish?
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