NDW - Server Installation Guide

Minimum Server Requirement

Server

BIOS based system
SATA directly attached HDD
Core 2 Duo Processor
2.0 Ghz Processor Speed
DVD ROM Drive
3GB RAM
80GB HDD
Integrated or PCI Network Card
Keyboard
Monitor Display Screen

(Note: NDW server hardware should be a BIOS based system, UEFI server hardware for installation of NDW server is currently not supported, also SATA directly attached HDDs should be used, RAID hardware is not supported at present)

Installation

Prior to installation make sure you have a server pc ready for installation, please check the pre-requisite for the server in previous section.

In order to begin installation, download the latest copy of software in zipped ISO format following location.

Important Note: The unzipped ISO image is NOT a CD/DVD disc image, therefore you will not be able to burn to CD or DVD, you also cannot mount it as virtual media. This is a USB flash drive / Hard Disk image. You can either burn this to a USB flash drive or any Hard Disk Drive. Once burnt you can then begin installation. Please follow instructions below. If you follow the instructions below you will not have any issues.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/network-hard-disk-data-wiping/files/

Once you have downloaded NDW_Server_Rel-4.5_USB.iso.zip file, please unzip it.

NDW_Server_Rel-4.5_USB.iso.zip file has size of approximately 2.7 GB, after unzipping the file name is NDW_Server_Rel-4.5_USB.iso and file size is 4.00 GB

You will need a minimum 4 GB USB flash drive. Now burn the ISO image file NDW_Server_Rel-4.5_USB.iso to a usb flash drive.

If you are a Windows user, please use rufus application to burn the ISO image to USB flash drive. Please refer to rufus guide. (You may google to find instructions)

If you are Linux user, you can use dd command to burn the image to USB flash drive.

in Linux for example, dd if=./NDW_Server_Rel-4.5_USB.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress

Explanation: dd is a linux command to burn image, if=./filename is your source image of=/dev/sdX is the usb flash device status=progress will display the progress of image transfer to USB drive. (Please check the usb device name using dmesg)

After successfully burning the image to usb flash drive, you are now ready to begin NDW installation.

Plug the usb flash drive into installation server machine and boot from it.

You will come to following screen.

Important Note: type “nuke” and press Enter key on the keyboard

Above action will format the hard disk of your server machine and install NDW - Network Data Wiping server software. (You will loose all your existing data).

Follow the on screen instructions and continue to install the software, once completed reboot your server.

Important! After System Restore / Installation completion please reboot / reset your server

Once the server has been successfully installed and rebooted. You should be able to access the server’s web GUI interface.

Note: Please make sure your management console laptop / desktop where you are going to access the server’s GUI is on configured IP address: 192.168.1.252 subnet: 255.255.0.0, also ensure your management desktop / notebook network PXE boot option is disabled; otherwise if your management PC boots via PXE / network boot, server will wipe your management workstation hard disk drives.

Server machine will boot into NDW software and will display either login prompt or graphical user interface.
NDW - Server has successfully installed and is now ready for use. Please refer to NDW user guide.