On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/08/2013 02:06 PM, Yungwei Chen wrote:
>> I need to securely wipe out a disk on a remote machine, but I don't have access to that machine.
>> Therefore I cannot use the LiveCD+shred (or dd) combination.
>
> If you have enough RAM to hold the live disk, you can boot the whole
> thing from grub, probably using memdisk. If you boot a live image with
> memdisk, you can safely wipe the hard disks without the running kernel
> crashing.
at $long_ago_job we'd use a pxe-netboot image; effectively DBAN
(http://www.dban.org/). which only really works if you have another
server in the remote location to act as the pxe server. maybe if
you were really playful (and had throw away hardware to try it on) you
could figure a way to extract the dban iso into the boot partition of
the remote machine, do a reboot and let it go?
about all I can think of.
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