[CentOS] slightly OT: dban

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Todd Denniston wrote:
> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote, On 08/27/2010 10:57 AM:
>> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>> I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good
>>> dban
>>> 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says
>>> starting, then dies, saying "dban has finished with non-fatal errors.
>>> Check the log for more information" It never gets to the interactive
>>> menu.
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>> Well, my manager actually had some CDs - dban.org only has .iso's for
>> CDs, which I don't know enough to make work with a DVD, so I d/l and
burned
>> the new one, 2.2.6 beta, and it's working now. Interesting... before the
<snip>>
>> Oh, and I *do* have to do at DOD full sanitization: I work at a US gov't
>> agency, and the machine's being surplused....
>
> Suggestion, check with your local DRMO (or whatever they are calling
> themselves now) representative and make sure that you are allowed to send
> any hard drive with the machine at *ALL*.

Not my problem - I'm not with DoD, I'm under HHS, and we've got PII and
PHI info. I was told, when I started, that this was acceptable. Actually,
I was introduced to dban here.

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