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

[Paul Hartman]

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.