[SGVLUG] cool tool

John Riehl jcriehl at mail.jpl.nasa.gov
Wed Sep 7 10:20:50 PDT 2005


D'oh

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

jr
john riehl

John Riehl wrote:
> I came across a cool tool, Darik's Boot and Nuke. It erases disks (I 
> have to wipe some disks before they go elsewhere). You can have it 
> either do a quick erase, or other grades of thoroughness up to DOD spec.
> 
> It can be used as either a bootable floppy or cdrom.  You boot it, you 
> start the erase, and go away, taking the media with you.
> 
> If you are looking at writing an embedded or small standalone 
> application, this is a pretty good example.  it uses the linux kernel, 
> uclibc, busybox, and syslinux.
> 
> 
> btw, wont be able to make the meeting thursday....sigh....
> 
> jr
> john riehl
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