Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:10:23 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!) Message-ID: <4E391E8F.4090308@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110803015749.70218347.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20110802180606.4599d800@serene> <20110803015749.70218347.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 03/08/2011 00:57, Polytropon wrote:
>> > The really crucial problem I'm facing right now is that I can't get
>> > Linux's damned "grub" off of my hard drive! =20
> This should be easy by dd'ing the beginning of the hard disk
> with /dev/zero's. Otherwise, overwriting with FreeBSD's standard
> booting mechanisms should be possible too.
If you want an easy way to blank a system, try dban (Darik's Boot and
Nuke) -- it's a bootable CD which can overwrite disks multiple times and
ultimately zero them out. For your purposes, you don't need the
high-security wiping -- just choose the menu option to simply zero the
disk.
Cheers,
Matthew
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