Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?

[Pandu Poluan]

On Feb 9, 2012 10:18 PM, "Paul Hartman" <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@××××.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.
>

Although a nice benefit, I think I'm going to do it the old way... after
all, everytime I have to shutdown a box, I have to first migrate the VMs
within to another host. So, no chance to shut them all at the same time.

Rgds,