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On Saturday 19 February 2011 14:55:30 Nathan Whitehorn wrote:

> The zeroing thing would have to be done by hand
> (e.g. from the installer script or a shell), and there is currently no
> built-in fetch a configuration from the network option. 

pc-sysinstall does a certain amount of zeroing (using dd) of existing 
partitions etc. already.

-- 
Bruce Cran