[mdlug] Boot floppy in knoppix

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: R. Kannan

> I have a very old system which does not boot on cdrom (No 
> jokes please :-)) and whose hard drives I want to clean up 
> before discarding (recycling). 

 On the Ubuntu CD is "Smart Boot Manager", a boot floppy that can then boot
from a CD-ROM, at least on one system I had that wouldn't boot properly from
a CD-ROM.

 http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/

 There's also Darik's Boot And Nuke:

 http://dban.sourceforge.net/

 A boot floppy that just starts up and wipes all the hard drives on the system.

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                     (313) 227-2317

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