Network Boot for a Mac

[ShotgunSaint]

So, I work at a technology renewal and recycling company, and occasionally we get macs in. Being the resident mac genius (can you believe it? I don't really know that much...), my boss just came to me asking if we could boot a mac from the network. Basically we just want to network boot them to wipe the hard drives. Sadly enough, now, we just remove the hard drives and crush them. No goodnik, it makes me sad to see old macs go down like this.
So is there a way to do a network boot without a mac server? Or is there a program we could use to wipe the hard drives securely?

 

[timswim78]

I can think of two thing's.

1. DBAN is a secure wiping program for hard disks. It can be booted from a CD. There is a PowerPC port for it here:
http://dban.sourceforge.net/ppc.html

2. Take the harddrives out and wipe them in Windows computers.

 

[bobw]

Or boot from a MacOS disc and use Disk Utility to wipe them.

 

[ShotgunSaint]

cool, thanks guys. my boss will be thrilled, and I don't have to kill any more elderly macs