On 03/08/2011 00:57, Polytropon wrote: >> > The really crucial problem I'm facing right now is that I can't get >> > Linux's damned "grub" off of my hard drive!
> This should be easy by dd'ing the beginning of the hard disk
> with /dev/zero's. Otherwise, overwriting with FreeBSD's standard
> booting mechanisms should be possible too.
If you want an easy way to blank a system, try dban (Darik's Boot and
Nuke) -- it's a bootable CD which can overwrite disks multiple times and
ultimately zero them out. For your purposes, you don't need the
high-security wiping -- just choose the menu option to simply zero the
disk.
Cheers,
Matthew
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