autonuke with audible completion notice

[Anonymous]

I'm looking to sanitize the drives on a LOT of workstations, so many that i don't even want to plug a keyboard and monitor into them.

Following the autonuke process is there any way to get a PC to create an audible tone through the PC speaker at the "completed, press Enter" prompt? So I will know it's done and can unplug it and move to the next workstation.

Thanks.

 

[dajhorn]

This feature is easy to add. If the rc script echos the BEL character to the console after dwipe returns, then the speaker will beep.

IIRC, this feature was in a beta release, but there were three problems with it:

- It is difficult to distinguish success from failure.
- It can cause flakey computers to crash.
- Users complained about it.

You can pull the DBAN floppy and use it on a different computer after you see the "Loading the kernel. Please wait..." message. If you're running headless, then this would be the second time that the floppy disks is accessed.