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I use SystemRescueCD and a tool called AIDA. It shows hardware information |
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in more "friendly" |
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way by using ncurses. And also there is no need to boot LiveCD itself - it |
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stars form grub. |
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On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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> > Excuse me for starting an off-topic thread, |
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> > But do any of you guys/gals know of a Live CD distro that can perform |
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> > hardware audit? i.e., detect installed processor model, RAM parameters & |
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> > layout, etc. |
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> > It's gotta be a Live CD because the boxes currently installed are running |
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> > either VMware or XenServer and I am reluctant to open them up. So I guess |
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> > I'll just shutdown the box, boot using the Live CD, record all important |
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> > info, and reboot into the hypervisor. |
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> > Rgds, |
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> Pretty much any livecd that'll boot can do the job... lspci -vv, |
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> /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/meminfo, and fdisk -l (which'll catch any drives |
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> the running kernel sees at least) are pretty standard, and it wouldn't |
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> take much to include a script that calls those, dumps the output |
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> somewhere, then reboots. For more extensive info, dmidecode and lshw |
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> tend to give more detail, but are a little less 'standard'. Notably, |
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> dmidecode gives things like per-slot ram information. |
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> Poison [BLX] |
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> Joshua M. Murphy |
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С уважением, |
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