From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HoIov-00010A-Tr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:41:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4GCeJ66021280; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:40:19 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out4.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.77]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4GCa1Cp016527 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:36:02 GMT Received: from [172.16.0.52] (dsl-203-113-239-210.SA.netspace.net.au [203.113.239.210]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id E494E376488 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 22:36:01 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] shopping for a laptop - tools to bring From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 22:06:40 +0930 Message-Id: <1179319000.24769.28.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3b52842c-e174-46eb-a942-24ceb99fc9de X-Archives-Hash: 7c5e8328462ac4c632ac355717792a65 On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:12 -0400, Devon Miller wrote: > Does anyone know of a bootable CD intended for testing laptop (or > desktop) functionality? > > I'm hoping someone out there has built something on top of Knoppix or > Gentoo's LiveCD that will examine the hardware and report what's good > and what's bad. any live CD should do (even the gentoo live cd?) - just run `lspci`, then come back here with the results! If they're friendly, you can even go back and forth with a usb-key and try compiling things on it, or installing binary drivers (if you want to go that way). all on your live-cd of course. There is a not-too-bad list of live CD's here: http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php but I don't so much like the top of the list :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Ctrl+Option+Command + P + R dracus - YE GODS! That's worse than EMACS! hehehehe don't ask what that does :P -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list