On Tuesday 03 May 2016 00:38:05 Ralph Sanchez wrote: > Tom-That's what I thought too, but I thought someone said earlier that > during the install w/ encryption, Debian would also zero the disk, or > maybe I'm mistaken. As far as the process if I did what your > suggesting and I was going to do, would it work like this... > > Boot from USB Live ISO > > Run choice zero/random pattern overwrite program
Run Live CD/USB of some kind and run a partitioning program. > Install from USB Live Before installing, run the six live CDs and make sure which DE you want. It makes a big difference. Speaking personally, I would avoid Gnome and KDE. You can always add them later. If you are convinced that you want to install Debian, then at this stage I would install from the net-install CD in the yellow box well down the page: https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/ If there are problems, go back to the Live CD. My 2p worth. Lisi > > lol I know it seems simple and like I should know the answer, but I've > never even fully formatted a HDD myself, never had a reason too > (degaussed one, the only other one I ever used haha had that Compaq > Presario tower for yeaaaars) so I guess I was worried if something > happened to make the system reboot with the HDD completely gone the > BIOS system wouldn't boot from the USB either then. I guess this comes > down to not knowing much about the Bios itself, where it's located and > how it works. It's funny how we pass over the simple things when > learning the bigger things we think are more important haha > > On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Tom Dial <tdd...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Although encryption of the disk (as offered during installation) is a > > good idea, it protects against loss of the system or disk while powered > > down. It does not protect against unauthorized access to the running > > system, and if the threat model includes that, zeroing (or better yet, > > multiply overwriting with varying patterns and then zeroing) offers > > protection that disk encryption does not. > > > > Neither action protects against determined state equivalent actors or > > malware implanted in the drive controller. > > > > Tom Dial > > > > On 05/02/2016 11:17 AM, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org > > wrote:
