[rescue] nuking from orbit

[Brian Hechinger]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:34:58PM +0100, Paul Sladen 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?

judging by what he later said, just install Solaris and choose initial install
and have solaris repartition and/or reformat the disks.  should do what he
wants.  no funny stuff needed.

-brian