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 1RvWeQ-0000mN-V6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:15:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67CB5E04D2; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 16:15:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (svr-us4.tirtonadi.com [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD9DBE06DC for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 16:13:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com ([209.85.212.181]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RvWd5-001AVj-C1 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:13:51 +0700 Received: by wibhi8 with SMTP id hi8so1470246wib.40 for ; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:13:45 -0800 (PST) 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 Received: by 10.216.138.42 with SMTP id z42mr8701580wei.13.1328804025527; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:13:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.103.4 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:13:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.103.4 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:13:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4F33823B.1080609@hadt.biz> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 23:13:45 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit? From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e6dee8deeaebc404b88a4be1 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: e25d63f1-8886-438d-a8f3-1680b2d0b60d X-Archives-Hash: 0031ab63f1422dda71402e6330b09880 --0016e6dee8deeaebc404b88a4be1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Feb 9, 2012 10:18 PM, "Paul Hartman" wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: > >> 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 > > I'll give another vote for partedmagic, aside from running gparted > it's also got some good general-purpose tools. It also loads itself > into RAM and ejects the disc once it's loaded, so if you're using it > on multiple machines you can use one disc to load them all at once. > Although a nice benefit, I think I'm going to do it the old way... after all, everytime I have to shutdown a box, I have to first migrate the VMs within to another host. So, no chance to shut them all at the same time. Rgds, --0016e6dee8deeaebc404b88a4be1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8


On Feb 9, 2012 10:18 PM, "Paul Hartman" <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@hadt.biz> wrote:
> >> 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
>
> I'll give another vote for partedmagic, aside from running gparted
> it's also got some good general-purpose tools. It also loads itself
> into RAM and ejects the disc once it's loaded, so if you're using it
> on multiple machines you can use one disc to load them all at once.
>

Although a nice benefit, I think I'm going to do it the old way... after all, everytime I have to shutdown a box, I have to first migrate the VMs within to another host. So, no chance to shut them all at the same time.

Rgds,

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