Hi Everyone,
Will try to do a more detailed explanation. As mentioned "Normally use
DBAN on a Bootable Floppy" It is used to erase different Hard Drives.
Website Info "Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot
disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will
automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that
it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or
emergency data destruction." http://www.dban.org/ It offers many types
of wiping.
If you just want to write Zeros to the entire Hard Drive was told that
can use
"dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda will write zeros to every single block of
the hard drive, including the MBR and partition table." from "Easy
software to write hdd all 1s or 0s?"
http://forum.notebookreview.com/windows-os-software/566642-easy-software-write-hdd-all-1s-0s-2.html
Did not realize that a Linux Bootable Floppy is a lot more complicated
than DOS.
When DBAN boots there is a short time when it lists Linux ... I am
using DBAN 1.07 (believe used dban-1.0.7_i386.exe 1.7 MB to make the
Floppies) http://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/files/dban/dban-1.0.7/
There is also dban-1.0.7_i386.iso 2006-08-13 2.1 MB and
dban-1.0.7_sig.zip 2006-08-13 986 Bytes
Am wondering if there is an easy way to seperate the Linux boot from the
DBAN application (like you can with DOS)?
Any comments or suggestions?
Also is there an easy way to get the Linux kernel info?
Gene
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