RE: Wiping Solaris Servers

[alan <alan () clueserver org>]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Roten, Charles D. wrote:

> Helix and Backtrack are x86 LiveCD distributions.  They will not run on
> SPARC hardware, which is what I assume the target architecture to be.
>
> Either one would have to recompile and rebuild the ISO(s) for SPARC
> architectures, or remount the disks to be wiped in a SCSI-equipped Intel
> system and perform the operation there.

Maybe someone needs to port DBAN (http://dban.sourceforge.net/) to Sparc. 
(I would, but I gave away all my Sparc hardware (almost a ton) in the last 
move.)


> Charles Roten, CISSP
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> From: MILES John M (LC) [mailto:John.Miles () co lane or us]
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 3:07 PM
> To: Levenglick, Jeff; Holstein, Robert - BLS CTR;
> pen-test () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: Wiping Solaris Servers
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> Why not just boot to a forensic distro like Helix or BackTrack and let
> "wipe" run for X passes, or do something like dd if=/dev/urandom
> of=/dev/sda && dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda . . .
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