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. It typically comprises a small 15MB ISO image that you can burn to CD or make a bootable USB stick from so you can boot up a PC on it and set about erasing all detected storage devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDarik\u2019s Boot and Nuke (abbreviated as DBAN) is a popular tool used by many organisations and individuals to securely erase hard-drives prior to disposal, or perhaps just to fix Windows problems . It typically comprises a small 15MB ISO image that you can burn to CD or make a bootable USB stick from so you can boot up a PC on it and set about erasing all detected storage devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nWhen you\u2019re doing a lot of machines, however, booting a CD is tedious, especially when you accidentally scratch the disc and need to burn a new one. Using a USB stick and either misplacing it, or forgetting to remove it before erasing starts means you lose the content of the boot stick too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wouldn\u2019t it be nice to be able to simply boot DBAN from the network so it\u2019s always available whenever you need it and have it automatically use your preferred options instead of being manually run each time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pre-requisites<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s get it going<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional Options<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n So you might be wondering, what did we need the ISOLINUX.CFG file for if we weren\u2019t going to use it? Will, this is just for your reference \u2013 it contains all the command line parameters for all of the other options that DBAN offers you for the truly paranoid data hoarder. Please note that these additional options are superfluous \u2013 hard-drives are magnetic devices that can only hold one set of ones and zeros. Overwriting the drive multiple times with sequential or random ones and zeros is not going to make the erasure any more or less secure. Once a drive is wiped with just one pass of ones or zeros or a random combo, it is impossible to recover any data from it, and you certainly cannot \u201cunformat\u201d it or \u201cunwipe\u201d it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n To save you some time, here\u2019s a complete list of the extra options presented as a sub-menu for your PXE boot menu. Simply copy and paste it into your boot menu configuration, or pick and choose the options you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note: To prevent accidental erasing of a system from PXE boot, the default menu option is set to run DBAN in manual mode where you are asked to choose which drives you wish to erase, which gives you a chance to back out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Happy erasing! Darik\u2019s Boot and Nuke (abbreviated as DBAN) is a popular tool used by many organisations and individuals to securely erase hard-drives prior to disposal, or perhaps just to fix Windows problems . It typically comprises a small 15MB ISO image that you can burn to CD or make a bootable USB stick from so you can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/li>$ mkdir \/srv\/tftp\/dban<\/code>
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(We don\u2019t actually\u00a0need to do this, but since everything else in the Linux world is typically in lower-case, we may as well do the same here)
<\/li>$ sudo chmod 777 -R \/srv\/tftp<\/code>
<\/li>$ nano \/srv\/tftp\/mybootmenu.cfg<\/code>
<\/li>LABEL Auto ^Nuke EVERYTHING With Zeros NOW! No Questions Asked!
KERNEL dban\/dban.bzi APPEND nuke=\"dwipe --autonuke --method zero\" silent<\/code>
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<\/li><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n# ================================================================\n# BEGIN: SECURE HDD ERASE OPTIONS\n# ================================================================\n\nmenu begin Secure HDD erase options\n menu title ^Secure HDD erase options\n label mainmenu\n menu label ^Back..\n menu exit\n\nLABEL Auto ^Nuke EVERYTHING With Zeros NOW! No Questions Asked!\n KERNEL dban\/dban.bzi\n APPEND nuke=\"dwipe --autonuke --method zero\" silent\n\nLABEL ^Manual Setup of Wipe Options\n MENU default\n KERNEL dban\/dban.bzi\n APPEND nuke=\"dwipe\"\n\nLABEL ^Default 3-Pass Random Wipe (AUTO)\n KERNEL dban\/dban.bzi\n APPEND nuke=\"dwipe --autonuke\" silent\n\nLABEL US Dept Defence ^Standard Wipe Method (AUTO)\n KERNEL dban\/dban.bzi\n APPEND nuke=\"dwipe --autonuke --method dod522022m\" silent\n\nLABEL US Dept Defence ^3-Pass Wipe Method (AUTO)\n KERNEL dban\/dban.bzi\n APPEND nuke=\"dwipe --autonuke --method dod3pass\" silent\n\nLABEL US Dept Defence Short Wipe Method (AUTO)\n KERNEL dban\/dban.bzi\n APPEND nuke=\"dwipe --autonuke --method dodshort\" silent\n\nLABEL Peter ^Gutmann Wipe Method (AUTO)\n KERNEL dban\/dban.bzi\n APPEND nuke=\"dwipe --autonuke --method gutmann\" silent\n\nLABEL ^RCMP TSSIT OPS-II Wipe Method (AUTO)\n KERNEL dban\/dban.bzi\n APPEND nuke=\"dwipe --autonuke --method ops2\" silent\n\nLABEL ^Paranoid 8x Wipe with Full Verify (AUTO)\n KERNEL dban\/dban.bzi\n APPEND nuke=\"dwipe --autonuke --method prng --rounds 8 --verify all\" silent\n\nLABEL PRNG Stream ^8x Wipe Method (AUTO)\n KERNEL dban\/dban.bzi\n APPEND nuke=\"dwipe --autonuke --method prng --rounds 8\" silent\n\nLABEL ^Quick Wipe - Not 100% Secure (AUTO)\n KERNEL dban\/dban.bzi\n APPEND nuke=\"dwipe --autonuke --method quick\" silent\n\nmenu end\n\n# ================================================================\n# END: SECURE HDD ERASE OPTIONS\n# ================================================================<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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