SNIP

You can download DBAN at your end. Just the ~16MB ISO file.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dba...an/dban-2.3.0/

Connect a sacrificial hard drive to your test
PC (just one hard drive, a small one), boot the DBAN CD,
and erase the drive. Then, based on the experience,
write up a procedure and send it and the CD to your
son.

I can even do this in a virtual machine, to demonstrate.

https://s1.postimg.org/4v2s35o427/dban.gif

Installing AntiX would be for bonus points. As
otherwise, first you'd have to run AntiX in
Live Mode, thoroughly erase the drive, *then*
start an AntiX install.

Paul

Hi Paul,

After I posted my last message about sending my son a copy of
Linux, AntiX, I decided to take your suggestion about dban and
I downloaded it.

I am sending my son an email with the link you provided plus
some information about "burning" a CD with that .ISO image file.

I also told him, if he is unsure how to "burn" an image file
onto a CD, I will do it and mail it to him.

In the same email, I told my son, "After you "wipe" the hard drive, put
a note on the computer to indicate that "This computer has NO Operating System
Installed" before you donate it to Good Will or other. Somebody will buy it
if he/she has a OS system disk eg. Windows, Linux, etc."

Again, Thanks, John

PS, Also, Thanks again to Vanguard & J.P. Gilliver for your suggestions.