i have a frind that at his work they are going to get rid of an old server. he said o could have it but it would have to be diskwiped first. it sounded like he wasent sure on how to do it and thought the program they use for windows would fail to work but i think it could because tha program is ran off a flopy disk built on a win 98 startup disk. he said i could probly do the disk wipe as long as he was there also. but i would also like to know if it fails how would i go about this in solaris? i beleve it is somewhat linix based or similar so couldn't i just do a mkfs or fdisk on it?
if it helps here is some info on it. it is a unisys aquanta ES from 200-2001 it has 4 scsi disks in it with 6 capacity not sure of the setup wether raid 5 or what or of capacity i beleve probly around 10-30 GB per HDD. has at least 1 PIII xeon CPU 1 GB ram. from mthe research i have done on this system it is supposed to be a pc style system but with in this case sun os but it sounds like it will run windows.
i have some experiance with linux but have not yet worked with solaris. not sure wether it is like linix where drives would have to be mounted (probly would be alredy for the os) and if when a mkfs or fdisk is done how is the drives specified is this like linux? also not sure because it is probly a raid theyd have to be done individualy this could cause problems with wiping other ones especily if the os is on all of them. looked around for some freeware diskwipe stuff only found one and they wanted like $30. i would be ok using a program that it could boot and wipe or command line.
any help apreciated.
if it helps here is some info on it. it is a unisys aquanta ES from 200-2001 it has 4 scsi disks in it with 6 capacity not sure of the setup wether raid 5 or what or of capacity i beleve probly around 10-30 GB per HDD. has at least 1 PIII xeon CPU 1 GB ram. from mthe research i have done on this system it is supposed to be a pc style system but with in this case sun os but it sounds like it will run windows.
i have some experiance with linux but have not yet worked with solaris. not sure wether it is like linix where drives would have to be mounted (probly would be alredy for the os) and if when a mkfs or fdisk is done how is the drives specified is this like linux? also not sure because it is probly a raid theyd have to be done individualy this could cause problems with wiping other ones especily if the os is on all of them. looked around for some freeware diskwipe stuff only found one and they wanted like $30. i would be ok using a program that it could boot and wipe or command line.
any help apreciated.