From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 09:14:52 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2M1UYk0eP8SecTDmxVMWKpvK1nptO5Bjtm7K1HRo2HNpA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F33823B.1080609@hadt.biz>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-09 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-09 3:58 [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit? Pandu Poluan
2012-02-09 5:54 ` Joshua Murphy
2012-02-09 6:47 ` Andrew Tchernoivanov
2012-02-09 7:08 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-09 7:26 ` Andrew Tchernoivanov
2012-02-09 7:33 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-09 7:06 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-09 9:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-09 8:22 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-02-09 15:14 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2012-02-09 16:13 ` Pandu Poluan
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