Wiping old SPARC servers

[Sam Gleske]

Currently I wish to use Aurora to wipe an old sparc server which used to serve
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 DBAN
but I can't find a sparc iso of DBAN.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions,
SAM
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[Styma, Robert E (Robert)]

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Currently I wish to use Aurora to wipe an old sparc server which used to serve 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 DBAN 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/random.

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 the 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