[TriLUG] disk-wiping tool?

[Joseph Tate]

I've got an iso of Tom's Root Boot that I've burned bcwipe on, but you 
have to mount the cdrom drive after it's booted up.  Bcwipe can be run 
from a floppy as well (so boot using knoppix or tom's and then run it).

Bcwipe can be had by googling.

Christopher L Merrill wrote:

> I need to wipe some hard drives on various old machines before
> they are disposed of.  Is there a Linux distribution-on-a-floppy
> that can do this?  I'm thinking of something similar to "parted",
> which is available as an ISO image of a floppy, so I can use it
> on any system, regardless of the original OS.
> 
> TIA,
> Chris
> 
> I would have googled...but I wasn't sure what terms to search for :(
>