From: alan (alan@clueserver.org)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2007 - 18:51:39 EDT
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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> Technology Solutions Group
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> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>
> 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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