Boot nuke

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:13:01 AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> I think we know what you want. The question isn't what you want, but how
> this technology you're trying to use actually works. Short of going and
> doing the investigation for you, I don't know as I (or anyone else),
> could answer you. It should be quite evident that none of us here use
> this thing, so we can't just tell you off the top of our heads.

I looked at the site a little without much enlightenment as to what is
under the hood of this package, but I didn't try all that hard.
Regardless of how it works behind the scenes though you are going to
have to modify the kernel of the boot disk and then rebuild the disk to
get speakup working. If the issue is standardization on this particular
system for wiping hard drives will the people who say you *must* use
dban permit you to use a modified version of it. If they will let you
modify the source and recompile then they might as well allow you to use
other tools to do the same job, so I think your going to need to check
with the powers that be to see if any modification would be a violation
or exactly what is going on.

- -- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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