From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RvPI4-0002T2-CS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:23:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75581E072F; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:23:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.hadt.biz (boss.hadt.biz [78.47.36.129]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39221E06F7 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:22:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.255.100] (p5B3417CD.dip.t-dialin.net [91.52.23.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.hadt.biz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0FE4F14C036C for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 09:22:21 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4F33823B.1080609@hadt.biz> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:22:19 +0100 From: Michael Hampicke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120206 Thunderbird/10.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e4fde030-cf37-4aea-831a-afb5646da18f X-Archives-Hash: 0ddfb2c179023c6e5d24c91b8404e2cf > But do any of you guys/gals know of a Live CD distro that can perform > hardware audit? i.e., detect installed processor model, RAM parameters & > layout, etc. Some days ago I was using the parted magic live cd [1]. It had a tool that listed all hardware in a nice fashion. I don't recall it's name - but looking at the list of programs that come with parted magic [2] I guess it was hardinfo. [1] http://partedmagic.com/ [2] http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=programs