Boot nuke

[Sean McMahon]

This brings up an interesting point, doesn't the installation of linux on to a
partician formerly used by another opperating system remove data from the
partician?  df shows 8 gigs total space and explorer showed the same amount when
it was a windows system.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vega, Gabriel" <GVega at azdes.gov>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. " <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 1:18 PM
Subject: RE: Boot nuke


Dban, or darik's boot nuke is a hard drive sanitizer. It whipes a disk
several times and totally makes sure that you can not recover old data.
I believes it passes like six to 8 times over the disk with 0's. and
sadly I know there are other apps that can do this but dban is the only
thing the state says we could use.

Also, all I am wondering is can we use like the lt boot disk and then
when it asks for a boot disk if we could stick in the dban start up disk
and if it will boot into it? Or would I have to patch the speakup into
the original floppy start up disk of dban into the kernal?

Gabe Vega
Technical Support Specialist
Information Services Unit
Arizona Industries for the Blind
CellPhone:(602) 488-9862

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 1:04 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Boot nuke

Never heard of boot nuke. What is it?

Vega, Gabriel writes:
> Hello I was wondering if there was a speakup modified version of boot
> nuke or something that uses the boot nuke option. I am a blind
> technician that is needing to use this application tool in order to
> sanitize floppy disks and the only state approve application to
> accomplish this is boot nuke. Can some one let me know. Thank you
>
> Gabe Vega
> Technical Support Specialist
> Information Services Unit
> Arizona Industries for the Blind
> CellPhone:(602) 488-9862
>
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