Bootable ISO.

Konstantin Riabitsev yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri Jun 27 17:30:02 2003


Tim Seufert wrote:
> Is it desired that it be automatic?  (That would be a dangerous CD.  :) 

Yes. It's like owning a gun, see. :)

>  If not, a quick & easy way to do part of it is an OS X install CD.  You 
> can launch Disk Utility from one of the menus, and then format a disk 
> using the option to zero all data.

Hmm... That would mean making copies of an OS X installation CD, 
which would be legally questionable. Though I will relay it to him, 
thanks.

> I'm not sure that writing data from urandom will do much useful after 
> zeroing the disk. 

I'm just relaying the info. I think he just wants to "cover" the 
fact that the disk has been zeroed. Actually, he said all zeroes, 
then all ones, then random, I just omitted one step.

Cheers,
-- 
Konstantin ("Icon") Riabitsev
Duke University Physics Sysadmin
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