How do you restore the solid-state drive to the factory default state
There may come a time when you want to clear all the content from the solid-state drive in order to re-configure the PublicIP system from scratch.
There are several reason you might want to do this.
1. You may be running on Open mode and decide to use the Premium Service.
2. You may be having some problems and want to start over from scratch.
3. You might have some configuration issues that require clearing all the storable information from the solid-state drive.
There may be any number of reasons you might want to “clear” the solid-state drive but unlike a floppy disk or USB thumbdrive you would not want to remove it and reformat it!
Here is the method you use!
Open a terminal window on the ZoneCD machine.
In the terminal window you type the following two commands (and press ENTER after each command):
alias rm=rm
rm -rf /mnt/floppy/*
PLEASE NOTE: You must be very careful with the rm command as it will erase anything in the path you specify! Be SURE you have the rm command typed EXACTLY as seen above before you hit the enter key!!!
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
That’s it! All of the content contained in the storage area of the solid-state drive has just been wiped from the storage area!
You can verify the storage area is empty by simply using the following command:
df
The computer display will show the storage area as /dev/hda2 with a filesystem partition mount point of /mnt/floppy and about 200-megs of free space available.
When you reboot the computer you will be presented with the initial menu to configure the system from scratch!
That’s it! Was that easy or what!
Gary McKinney