Re: Need to wipe/erase hard drive of iBook G4

On Aug 17 2009, Stefan Monnier wrote: You'll be bette off with dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda, BTW since you can then check the progress via kill -USR1, Well, I really like ddrescue from the gddrescue package for this very reason. The command to use would be ddrescue /dev/urandom /dev/hda. No

Re: Need to wipe/erase hard drive of iBook G4

drive, then execute cat /dev/urandom /dev/hda in a shell. You'll have to (i) wait a really freaking long time, and (ii) set up a new partition You'll be bette off with dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda, BTW since you can then check the progress via kill -USR1, so the freaking-long-time becomes

Need to wipe/erase hard drive of iBook G4

I'm part of a group called Project Phoenix (open source blood pressure monitor), and I'm trying to get us to use Linux rather than Windows. The laptop we're using for Linux is an iBook G4. I didn't realize until now that the Linux world has limited support for the Mac/Apple/PowerPC computer.

Re: Need to wipe/erase hard drive of iBook G4

Dear Jason, Are you wanting to guarantee that all previous data is unrecoverable, or are you just wanting to install debian? The debian powerpc installer has an 'expert' mode available. You could run through the installer up to the point where you have detected your hard drive, then