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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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