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Reebadab: zill fill old non-virgin drive methods update

Reebadab — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:54:40 GMT

zill fill old non-virgin drive methods update

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	# Use a virgin kurobox pro (ie : no system ever installed on it), if not you will have to change u-boot settings (require a [[serial port\|serial console access]]) to set [[Kurobox_Pro_u-boot_environment_variable_settings \| u-boot to boot on /dev/mtdblock2]] <font color=red>		# Use a virgin kurobox pro (ie : no system ever installed on it), if not you will have to change u-boot settings (require a [[serial port\|serial console access]]) to set [[Kurobox_Pro_u-boot_environment_variable_settings \| u-boot to boot on /dev/mtdblock2]] <font color=red>
-	# Attention "non-virgins": if you are using a hard disk which has already been used to set up either Freelink or the Kurobox linux distribution, you need to erase the previous data, not just delete the partitions with fdisk: if leftover remnants of the previous installation are there, they may reappear when the identical partitions are recreated, and prevent the new installation from proceeding. It's not clear how thoroughly the old data must be erased: if you have this problem, overwrite the the older data with zeros (empty space too). You have a couple of choices here: One is 'shred' which will allow for multiple re-writes and is used for secure disk wipes. Shred can literally take days on a large terabyte size drive. The other method is to use a command like cat /dev/zeros > /dev/sda1 for each partition. If a partition was formally a swap and you have i/o errors performing the zero fill, then simply delete the offending partitions, recombine them, and issue the cat /dev/zero fill on the new partion. Once this is complete you now have a drive filled with 'zeros', and this takes only hours as opposed to days with 'shred'. ~~Note ... that either of these methods are best done on another box. (HINT: boot off of a DVD-ROM Ubuntu Distro (or similar) ... and have the drive to be reformatted connected to an open SATA port)~~ </font>	+	# Attention "non-virgins": if you are using a hard disk which has already been used to set up either Freelink or the Kurobox linux distribution, you need to erase the previous data, not just delete the partitions with fdisk: if leftover remnants of the previous installation are there, they may reappear when the identical partitions are recreated, and prevent the new installation from proceeding. It's not clear how thoroughly the old data must be erased: if you have this problem, overwrite the the older data with zeros (empty space too). You have a couple of choices here: {Note ... that either of these methods are best done on another box. (HINT: boot off of a DVD-ROM Ubuntu Distro (or similar) ... and have the drive to be reformatted connected to an open SATA port)}
		+	## One is 'shred' which will allow for multiple re-writes and is used for secure disk wipes. Shred can literally take days on a large terabyte size drive.
		+	## The other method is to use a command like cat /dev/zeros > /dev/sda1 for each partition. If a partition was formally a swap and you have i/o errors performing the zero fill, then simply delete the offending partitions, recombine them, and issue the cat /dev/zero fill on the new partion. Once this is complete you now have a drive filled with 'zeros', and this takes only hours as opposed to days with 'shred'.
		+	</font>
	# Connect up the blank unformatted hard drive and power on		# Connect up the blank unformatted hard drive and power on
	# Access the Samba share on the kurobox named mtd_device		# Access the Samba share on the kurobox named mtd_device

Reebadab: update of non-virgin drive wipe methods

Reebadab — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:47:32 GMT

update of non-virgin drive wipe methods

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	# Use a virgin kurobox pro (ie : no system ever installed on it), if not you will have to change u-boot settings (require a [[serial port\|serial console access]]) to set [[Kurobox_Pro_u-boot_environment_variable_settings \| u-boot to boot on /dev/mtdblock2]] <font color=red>		# Use a virgin kurobox pro (ie : no system ever installed on it), if not you will have to change u-boot settings (require a [[serial port\|serial console access]]) to set [[Kurobox_Pro_u-boot_environment_variable_settings \| u-boot to boot on /dev/mtdblock2]] <font color=red>
-	# Attention "non-virgins": if you are using a hard disk which has already been used to set up either Freelink or the Kurobox linux distribution, you need to erase the previous data, not just delete the partitions with fdisk: if leftover remnants of the previous installation are there, they may reappear when the identical partitions are recreated, and prevent the new installation from proceeding. It's not clear how thoroughly the old data must be erased: if you have this problem, overwrite the the older data with zeros (empty space too) ~~using e~~.g. shred.</font>	+	# Attention "non-virgins": if you are using a hard disk which has already been used to set up either Freelink or the Kurobox linux distribution, you need to erase the previous data, not just delete the partitions with fdisk: if leftover remnants of the previous installation are there, they may reappear when the identical partitions are recreated, and prevent the new installation from proceeding. It's not clear how thoroughly the old data must be erased: if you have this problem, overwrite the the older data with zeros (empty space too). You have a couple of choices here: One is 'shred' which will allow for multiple re-writes and is used for secure disk wipes. Shred can literally take days on a large terabyte size drive. The other method is to use a command like cat /dev/zeros > /dev/sda1 for each partition. If a partition was formally a swap and you have i/o errors performing the zero fill, then simply delete the offending partitions, recombine them, and issue the cat /dev/zero fill on the new partion. Once this is complete you now have a drive filled with 'zeros', and this takes only hours as opposed to days with 'shred'. Note ... that either of these methods are best done on another box. (HINT: boot off of a DVD-ROM Ubuntu Distro (or similar) ... and have the drive to be reformatted connected to an open SATA port) </font>
	# Connect up the blank unformatted hard drive and power on		# Connect up the blank unformatted hard drive and power on
	# Access the Samba share on the kurobox named mtd_device		# Access the Samba share on the kurobox named mtd_device

Ramuk at 20:31, 23 June 2008

Ramuk — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:31:32 GMT

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-	~~{{Warning\| <big> This document is close to being deprecated, please look towards the armel article: <br><br>'''<big>[[Armel Debian for the Kurobox Pro - Manual install]]'''</big></big>}}~~

	==FreeLink (Debian)==		==FreeLink (Debian)==

Ramuk at 17:52, 23 June 2008

Ramuk — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:52:03 GMT

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-	{{Warning\| <big> This document is close to being deprecated, please look towards the armel article: <br>'''<big>[[Armel Debian for the Kurobox Pro - Manual install]]'''</big></big>}}	+	{{Warning\| <big> This document is close to being deprecated, please look towards the armel article: <br><br>'''<big>[[Armel Debian for the Kurobox Pro - Manual install]]'''</big></big>}}

	==FreeLink (Debian)==		==FreeLink (Debian)==

Ramuk at 17:51, 23 June 2008

Ramuk — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:51:47 GMT

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-	{{Warning\| <big> This document is close to being deprecated, please look towards the armel article: ~~<br>~~ <br>'''<big>[[Armel Debian for the Kurobox Pro - Manual install]]'''</big></big>}}	+	{{Warning\| <big> This document is close to being deprecated, please look towards the armel article: <br>'''<big>[[Armel Debian for the Kurobox Pro - Manual install]]'''</big></big>}}

	==FreeLink (Debian)==		==FreeLink (Debian)==

Ramuk at 17:51, 23 June 2008

Ramuk — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:51:37 GMT

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-	{{Warning\| <big> This document is close to being deprecated, please look towards the armel article: <br> <br>'''[[Armel Debian for the Kurobox Pro - Manual install]]'''}}	+	{{Warning\| <big> This document is close to being deprecated, please look towards the armel article: <br> <br>'''<big>[[Armel Debian for the Kurobox Pro - Manual install]]'''</big></big>}}

	==FreeLink (Debian)==		==FreeLink (Debian)==

Ramuk at 17:47, 23 June 2008

Ramuk — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:47:45 GMT

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		+	{{Warning\| <big> This document is close to being deprecated, please look towards the armel article: <br> <br>'''[[Armel Debian for the Kurobox Pro - Manual install]]'''}}

	==FreeLink (Debian)==		==FreeLink (Debian)==

Vquintans: fstab wrong, modified /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda3

Vquintans — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:21:00 GMT

fstab wrong, modified /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda3

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	none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=20 0 0		none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=20 0 0
	tmpfs /tmp tmpfs size=10M,mode=1777 0 0		tmpfs /tmp tmpfs size=10M,mode=1777 0 0
-	/dev/~~sda2~~ swap swap defaults 0 0	+	/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
	/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1		/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
	/dev/sda4 /mnt/disk1 xfs defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 0		/dev/sda4 /mnt/disk1 xfs defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 0

Ramuk at 05:27, 15 February 2008

Ramuk — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:27:38 GMT

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		+	==FreeLink (Debian)==

	The following procedure creates the following partition scheme, and untars a root file system onto '''<tt>p2 (/dev/sda2)</tt>'''. Somehow it rewrites the uboot variables allowing a boot from the hard drive. [[Add Serial Port\| Serial]] Console access can be used instead to change these uboot settings.		The following procedure creates the following partition scheme, and untars a root file system onto '''<tt>p2 (/dev/sda2)</tt>'''. Somehow it rewrites the uboot variables allowing a boot from the hard drive. [[Add Serial Port\| Serial]] Console access can be used instead to change these uboot settings.
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	{{warning\|The provided documentation says that this process is not recommended.		{{warning\|The provided documentation says that this process is not recommended.
	}}		}}
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-	~~==FreeLink (Debian)==~~

	# Use a virgin kurobox pro (ie : no system ever installed on it), if not you will have to change u-boot settings (require a [[serial port\|serial console access]]) to set [[Kurobox_Pro_u-boot_environment_variable_settings \| u-boot to boot on /dev/mtdblock2]] <font color=red>		# Use a virgin kurobox pro (ie : no system ever installed on it), if not you will have to change u-boot settings (require a [[serial port\|serial console access]]) to set [[Kurobox_Pro_u-boot_environment_variable_settings \| u-boot to boot on /dev/mtdblock2]] <font color=red>

Ramuk: FreeLink for the Kurobox Pro moved to FreeLink for the Kurobox Pro - Automatic Install

Ramuk — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:28:54 GMT

FreeLink for the Kurobox Pro moved to FreeLink for the Kurobox Pro - Automatic Install

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