[olug] wiping out a laptop

[George Neill]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
> DBAN is not up-to-date on hardware support and most likely doesn't
> support the SATA controller.

I believe you just need to make sure you grab the 2.0.0 instead of the
1.0.7 version.

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/dban/dban-beta.2007042900_i386.zip?download

If that doesn't work, you could just do it the old fashion way,

boot from a cd and then,
dd bs=1048576 if=/dev/random of=/path/to/my/block/dev

HTH,
George