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 1RvNnx-00024t-Jm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:48:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E3B6E0531; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:48:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF09E0531 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:47:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yhjj72 with SMTP id j72so804715yhj.40 for ; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:47:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=H5aLFG1jNEU5QjtflvKC13IzdviYlyILzNb4UB3l96M=; b=ku/YCDXPFx6JvvmjmSU80RfF7n7NvEwTB4oLY5nhX6JtNg2vVtypdcS2/cmyUJL/hM NYYcLZ025mD/pDlIwceYJ9kFi+POSYQRNViXRd24+q+BDnQAgks52TyZOsPqp3Jw1m7w uFQ/emb7HpYFH+QVfVi6y9UMV7qfrFMUGcLcc= 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 10.236.185.97 with SMTP id t61mr439494yhm.100.1328770031626; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:47:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.109.178 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 22:47:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:47:11 +0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit? From: Andrew Tchernoivanov To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=20cf305e2497b9284e04b8826146 X-Archives-Salt: acedbe56-a64f-4279-9942-62c9dc6ace5f X-Archives-Hash: 3dcfebc8934434101180e2664930fb8a --20cf305e2497b9284e04b8826146 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-U Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Pandu Poluan 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 runni= ng > > either VMware or XenServer and I am reluctant to open them up. So I gue= ss > > I'll just shutdown the box, boot using the Live CD, record all importan= t > > 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 > > --=20 =F3 =D5=D7=C1=D6=C5=CE=C9=C5=CD, =FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=C9=D7=C1=CE=CF=D7 =E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA --20cf305e2497b9284e04b8826146 Content-Type: text/html; charset=KOI8-U Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I use SystemRescueCD and a tool called AIDA. It=9Ashows hardware infor= mation in more "friendly"
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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<= br> > 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 gu= ess
> I'll just shutdown the box, boot using the Live CD, record all imp= ortant
> 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<= br> 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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