* Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?
2012-02-09 5:54 ` Joshua Murphy
@ 2012-02-09 6:47 ` Andrew Tchernoivanov
2012-02-09 7:08 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-09 7:06 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-09 9:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Tchernoivanov @ 2012-02-09 6:47 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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I use SystemRescueCD and a tool called AIDA. It shows hardware information
in more "friendly"
way by using ncurses. And also there is no need to boot LiveCD itself - it
stars form grub.
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> > Excuse me for starting an off-topic thread,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > It's gotta be a Live CD because the boxes currently installed are running
> > either VMware or XenServer and I am reluctant to open them up. So I guess
> > I'll just shutdown the box, boot using the Live CD, record all important
> > info, and reboot into the hypervisor.
> >
> > Rgds,
>
> Pretty much any livecd that'll boot can do the job... lspci -vv,
> /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/meminfo, and fdisk -l (which'll catch any drives
> the running kernel sees at least) are pretty standard, and it wouldn't
> take much to include a script that calls those, dumps the output
> somewhere, then reboots. For more extensive info, dmidecode and lshw
> tend to give more detail, but are a little less 'standard'. Notably,
> dmidecode gives things like per-slot ram information.
>
> --
> Poison [BLX]
> Joshua M. Murphy
>
>
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С уважением,
Черноиванов Андрей
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* Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?
2012-02-09 6:47 ` Andrew Tchernoivanov
@ 2012-02-09 7:08 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-09 7:26 ` Andrew Tchernoivanov
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From: Pandu Poluan @ 2012-02-09 7:08 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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On Feb 9, 2012 1:50 PM, "Andrew Tchernoivanov" <tchernoivanov@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I use SystemRescueCD and a tool called AIDA. It shows hardware
information in more "friendly"
> way by using ncurses. And also there is no need to boot LiveCD itself -
it stars form grub.
>
Ah, thank you!
I'll still burn a CD, though. Much easier to reboot from a CD than having
to edit grub in 10+ boxes.
Rgds,
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* Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?
2012-02-09 7:08 ` Pandu Poluan
@ 2012-02-09 7:26 ` Andrew Tchernoivanov
2012-02-09 7:33 ` Pandu Poluan
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From: Andrew Tchernoivanov @ 2012-02-09 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> Ah, thank you!
>
> I'll still burn a CD, though. Much easier to reboot from a CD than having
> to edit grub in 10+ boxes.
>
> Rgds,
>
You could also use unetbootin to make bootable USB-stick.
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Черноиванов Андрей
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* Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?
2012-02-09 7:26 ` Andrew Tchernoivanov
@ 2012-02-09 7:33 ` Pandu Poluan
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From: Pandu Poluan @ 2012-02-09 7:33 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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On Feb 9, 2012 2:29 PM, "Andrew Tchernoivanov" <tchernoivanov@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
>>
>> Ah, thank you!
>>
>> I'll still burn a CD, though. Much easier to reboot from a CD than
having to edit grub in 10+ boxes.
>>
>> Rgds,
>
>
> You could also use unetbootin to make bootable USB-stick.
>
Some of my boxes for strange reasons refuse to boot from USB. Rather than
troubleshooting, I chose the easy way out ;-)
Rgds,
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* Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?
2012-02-09 5:54 ` Joshua Murphy
2012-02-09 6:47 ` Andrew Tchernoivanov
@ 2012-02-09 7:06 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-09 9:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Pandu Poluan @ 2012-02-09 7:06 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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On Feb 9, 2012 12:58 PM, "Joshua Murphy" <poisonbl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> > Excuse me for starting an off-topic thread,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > It's gotta be a Live CD because the boxes currently installed are
running
> > either VMware or XenServer and I am reluctant to open them up. So I
guess
> > I'll just shutdown the box, boot using the Live CD, record all important
> > info, and reboot into the hypervisor.
> >
> > Rgds,
>
> Pretty much any livecd that'll boot can do the job... lspci -vv,
> /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/meminfo, and fdisk -l (which'll catch any drives
> the running kernel sees at least) are pretty standard, and it wouldn't
> take much to include a script that calls those, dumps the output
> somewhere, then reboots. For more extensive info, dmidecode and lshw
> tend to give more detail, but are a little less 'standard'. Notably,
> dmidecode gives things like per-slot ram information.
>
Well, I need that kind of information, so I guess I'll have to go
"non-standard" :-)
Rgds,
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* Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?
2012-02-09 5:54 ` Joshua Murphy
2012-02-09 6:47 ` Andrew Tchernoivanov
2012-02-09 7:06 ` Pandu Poluan
@ 2012-02-09 9:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Alan McKinnon @ 2012-02-09 9:49 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:54:19 -0500
Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
> wrote:
> > Excuse me for starting an off-topic thread,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > It's gotta be a Live CD because the boxes currently installed are
> > running either VMware or XenServer and I am reluctant to open them
> > up. So I guess I'll just shutdown the box, boot using the Live CD,
> > record all important info, and reboot into the hypervisor.
> >
> > Rgds,
>
> Pretty much any livecd that'll boot can do the job... lspci -vv,
> /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/meminfo, and fdisk -l (which'll catch any drives
> the running kernel sees at least) are pretty standard, and it wouldn't
> take much to include a script that calls those, dumps the output
> somewhere, then reboots. For more extensive info, dmidecode and lshw
> tend to give more detail, but are a little less 'standard'. Notably,
> dmidecode gives things like per-slot ram information.
>
Software does indeed make this process so much easier. We use dmidecode for this too.
All the machines in the data center run ocsng
(http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org) to automate the entire process, but
that's way beyond what the OP needs
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
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