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What do I do after I've erased everything on my disk? What is actually erased?

This paragraph is for those that are not familiar with wiping disks. if you know what you are doing skip to the next section. So you have erased your disk with ShredOS/nwipe and nwipe reported zero errors and the disk was erased. In its erased state and depending upon the method you used every block on the drive contains either zeroes or meaningless random data.

How to exclude the FAT formatted ShredOS Boot drive from Nwipe, interactive and autonuke modes?

There are two methods that can be used to exclude the FAT formatted ShredOS boot drive from appearing in nwipe's interactive mode or autonuke modes. Method 1: The first method is to place the following string shredos_exclude_boot_disc="yes" on the kernel command line in /boot/grub/grub.cfg and EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg on the ShredOS boot drive.

How to make a persistent change to the terminal resolution?

This procedure only applies to setting the resolution of the frame buffer in legacy boot. Using set gfxpayload=1024x768x16 appears to have no affect on UEFI resolution. After you have created the bootable ShredOS USB flash drive, you may want to increase the resolution from the default value which is usually quite low, i.e. 640x480 in legacy boot.

How to change the default nwipe options so the change persists between reboots?

To change the default settings of nwipe you will need to place the nwipe options required on the kernel command line in /boot/grub/grub.cfg and /EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg Example of default grub.cfg set default="0" set timeout="0" menuentry "shredos" { linux /boot/shredos console=tty3 loglevel=3 } Adding nwipe_options="..." to grub.cfg to make the default nwipe start up with zero method, no verification, no blanking, ignore.

How to set the keyboard map using the loadkeys command (see here for persistent change between reboots)?

You can set the type of keyboard that you are using by typing, loadkeys uk, loadkeys us, loadkeys fr, loadkeys cf, loadkeys by, loadkeys cf, loadkeys cz etc. See /usr/share/keymaps/i386/ for full list of keymaps. However you will need to add an entry to grub.cfg as shown in the example below for a persistent change between reboots.