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Obtaining BCWipe for UNIX

BCWipe for UNIX is distributed as
  • source codes archive (.tar.gz format)
  • bootable CD and floppy images with Linux system and precompiled BCWipe binaries.
Please visit Jetico web site for latest version.

Compatibility

BCWipe for UNIX is developed to be cross-platform and should run on any POSIX-compliant UNIX flavour. It was successfully tested on following systems:
  • Linux 2.0-2.4
  • FreeBSD 3.0-4.6
  • OpenBSD 2.8
  • Solaris 8
  • Digital UNIX 4
  • Irix 6.5 (wiping block devices was not tested)

Building BCWipe from source codes

  1. Get and unpack BCWipe for UNIX source distribution.
  2. Run make command for BCWipe compilation.
  3. Run make install command; ask your system administrator if you do not have enough privileges for this command.

Making bootable BCWipe CD

  1. Get and unpack BCWipe bootable CD .iso image.
  2. Burn .iso image using any appropriate CD-R/CD-RW creating software
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