Speakup-enabling recovery or administrative distributions

[Janina Sajka]

Whenever I've needed to fully wipe a hard drive for whatever reason, I
work out to bring it up unmounted. These days that's as simple as
dropping it into my usb drive caddy that lives just to the right edge of
my desk.

Then I just run 'badblocks -w' on the device. It takes a long time,
butthe disk is fully overwritten with random nonesense.

I've actually done this with mounted drives. Amazingly, Speakup
continues to function for quite a long time--even to seeing the prompt
return. Running a command would crash the system, of course.

Janina

Techswing33 writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm wanting to use Speakup/Espeakup to enable speech in what are for
> me now inaccessible circumstances.
> 
> The first is when using a distro for secure wiping a hard disk called
> Derick's Boot and Nuke, DBAN. I've got a bunch of drives in both
> personal and professional capacity that I need to securely erase prior
> to sending them out.
> 
> The second circumstance is to enable speech on a distro called System
> Rescue CD, for doing low level tasks on various Linux and Windows
> boxes, resetting or clearing passwords, backing up partition
> configurations, comes immediately to mind.
> 
> I'd like to remaster both of these distros, DBAN, and System Rescue
> CD, with Speakup included. My emphasis will be software speech with
> espeakup because I do not have a hardware synthesizer, so integrating
> audio support would also be essential.
> 
> If anyone has done this i'd appreciate any help/pointers.
> 
> Thanks.
> Dave.
> _______________________________________________
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