From e91721d06b68de8d835e2e8421ec638e7b4aa582 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: PartialVolume Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 18:14:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md ShredOS download with nwipe master Build of ShredOS and download link with the latest nwipe master. --- README.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9574f61..6588a7e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -179,6 +179,25 @@ make cd "src" sudo ./nwipe ``` +### Quick & Easy, bootable version of Nwipe Master +If you want to just try out a bootable version of nwipe you can download the ShredOS image [shredos-20200402.img](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zr_nSt1zvUUd6FGImU_phEPLX4GZlI1Z/view?usp=sharing) and burn it to a USB stick + +Check that the checksum matches +``` +sha1sum shredos-20200402.img +8088bbced64e854097482702cabc0a831b12b9ee shredos-20200402.img +``` + +Linux: Simply write it to a USB memory stick using the following command, replacing xxx with the device name of the USB memory stick you want to burn to. +``` +dd if=shredos-20200402.img of=/dev/xxx +``` +Reboot you computer making sure your bios is setup to boot from USB. It will boot very fast even on an old machine. On an old dual core system I use for testing it boots in around 9 seconds straight into the Nwipe drive selection screen. + +Some things to note: +- ShredOS has two tty terminals, ALT-F1 and ALT-F2. The default terminal ALT-F1 only runs nwipe, the version of nwipe that runs in the default terminal will automatically restart when you exit it, either at the end of a wipe or using CONTROL-C to abort. So if you want to run nwipe in the traditional way, along with any command line options you require, then use the second terminal ALT-F2, i.e nwipe --nousb --logfile=nwipe.log. If you do this the nwipe in the default terminal should be left at the drive selection screen. +- Although this is the latest version of nwipe that makes limited use of smartmontools, smartmontools is not installed in this version of ShredOS..YET. That will be fixed shortly. +- Hopefully I can work out a way of doing a nightly automated build of ShredOS with the very latest nwipe master. ## Bugs