Re: Need to wipe/erase hard drive of iBook G4

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> drive, then execute "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hda" in a shell.  You'll have
> to (i) wait a really freaking long time, and (ii) set up a new partition

You'll be bette off with "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda", BTW since you
can then check the progress via "kill -USR1", so the freaking-long-time
becomes more manageable (otherwise, you may end up wondering after
running the thing for several hours, whether it's actually working and
will end at some point or whether it's stuck somewhere).


        Stefan