Posted by: walt-sjc
on September 29, 2005 04:52 AM
I needed to do this to a few hundred desktop machines several years ago.
A custom tom's rootboot with the a script that dd's from<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/dev/zero is all that's needed unless you are concerned that someone is going to pay THOUSANDS to a recovery firm that MAY be able to pull off some limited info.
The older desktop's I was delaing with had CD's that were way too flakey / frequently not configured to boot. I also didn't want to hook up a monitor and screw with it.
Insert floppy, power on. Script beeps continuously if all is fine. If no beeps, then assume the wipe failed and yank the drive for physical destruction.
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Re:How to do it without DBAN
Posted by: walt-sjc on September 29, 2005 04:52 AMA custom tom's rootboot with the a script that dd's from<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/dev/zero is all that's needed unless you are concerned that someone is going to pay THOUSANDS to a recovery firm that MAY be able to pull off some limited info.
The older desktop's I was delaing with had CD's that were way too flakey / frequently not configured to boot. I also didn't want to hook up a monitor and screw with it.
Insert floppy, power on. Script beeps continuously if all is fine. If no beeps, then assume the wipe failed and yank the drive for physical destruction.
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