Re: Wiping old SPARC servers
"Styma, Robert E (Robert)" <[email protected]> Tue, 5 Jun 2012 12:20:23 -0500
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Currently I wish to use Aurora to wipe an old sparc server which used to se=
rve LDAP.
As of right now I'm going to use /dev/random. I was wondering, does aurora =
provide a "Live" cd build and do you recommend a process for wiping drives =
other than using /dev/random and /dev/zero with dd? Normally I would use DB=
AN but I can't find a sparc iso of DBAN.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions,
SAM
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It may be easier to just boot to single user mode from a Solaris CD.
At the OK prompt use : boot cdrom -s
If you have jumpstart environment, boot net -s would work too.
Then recreate one big partition and blast it with /dev/zero and then /dev/r=
andom.
You would be just as safe by creating and initializing a new partition and =
then
mounting it and cat'ing /dev/zero and /dev/random into that. Then delete t=
he new partition.
Support for the older sparc servers is pretty limited. I have had marginal=
luck on
old Ultra 1's and other S-Bus machines.
Bob
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