nuke and pave
v. phr.— «So I decided to install Tiger tonight on a couple of machines—an Install Over on my PowerBook (after using Carbon Copy Cloner to back it up—I’m crazed, not foolish), and a Nuke ‘N Pave on a spare SATA drive in my dual 2.7.» —“Tiger by the tail—Mike’s first install of OS X 10.4 ” by Mike Curtis HD For Indies Apr. 29, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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