[syslinux] Remotely Wipe Hard Drive

[J.H.]

http://boot.kernel.org - pxe without pxe servers being available ;-)

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

On 06/16/2010 11:19 AM, Matthew Holevinski wrote:
> Looks like I can't install syslinux's bootloader on an ntfs partition?
> 
> What I'd like to do is remotely setup a bootloader to wipe the hard
> drive contents on old assets.
> I was kind of hoping, that I could install syslinux on a remote
> workstation, and then throw a dban
> image and the corresponding menu and syslinux.cfg files on the remote
> workstation and then reboot it
> and have the client choose the option to wipe the hard drive.
> 
> Unfortunately, the entire hard drive contents is 1 large encrypted
> ntfs partition. How would any of you guys
> go about remotely wiping a pc, WITHOUT the ability to create boot
> media, strictly remote??? oh, and no pxe
> servers available either :))
> 
> Matthew Holevinski
> 
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