[rescue] nuking from orbit

[Paul Sladen]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Michael A. Turner wrote:
>
> 	Ok I have a sparc 5 here that my boss wants to me completely scrub
> and re-install for a local school system to use as a web server for the kids
> to learn on. I cannot find anything on how to "format and re-install" a sun
> box. Can anyone give me any pointers, I am required to format this clean so
> that no data can escape the destruction and make it's way over to the new
> system.

Wouldn't a  `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd0'  take care of this?

Followed by the installation of say Debian (www.debian.org), which uses a
different filesystem than Solaris?

Paul