[CentOS] slightly OT: dban

[Todd Denniston]

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.
>>
>> Now that I've disabled the non-existant floppy drive, at least it does say
>> "to save the log file again, press enter"....
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> 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 menu
> came up, it looked like the display from lshw....
> 
> 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....
> 
>      mark
> 

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*.

-- 
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter
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