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