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 1RvVji-00089G-Kq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:16:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED4F2E05F8; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:16:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28276E044C for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:15:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lahd3 with SMTP id d3so1783233lah.40 for ; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:15:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=ZoFGLROgY8l355IfW+0W/E4RvNKLN27xzEVywN/8Ifs=; b=eUWaY2ji5Ximmb91xLqHiLEUHRjEPet2/x3aSJcurubaiKCti21NH7hxk0KxZn1DNk gCKgBqEQORxCFlGNBumlsldWjOWiFJ5vdv+JyQVWWkPxnLmCj04Frn8rkb/TKJasQFja 2L0dDOhZ1y3H23DxstUHGMXPnLnwCSfmJPBW4= Received: by 10.152.114.169 with SMTP id jh9mr1439764lab.20.1328800512184; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:15:12 -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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.95.141 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 07:14:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F33823B.1080609@hadt.biz> References: <4F33823B.1080609@hadt.biz> From: Paul Hartman Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 09:14:52 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2-CBX1AHouPg_w3Z-SiAcdqPiz4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 0e57c055-8fb6-42fd-911d-b9c294860f5c X-Archives-Hash: 387a24a140742577afdc6f62a0f72e2b 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.