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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