On Friday 24 August 2007 13:15, Danyl Strype wrote: > Kia ora koutou > > With all the hardware troubles we've been having at Oblong and my own > struggles with Buster at home, I think it would be good to look at > open source hardware checking tools tommorrow. I did a quick web > search and came up with an article called 'Hardware diagnostics with > open source tools': > http://www.linux.com/articles/55366 > > I've also been thinking about finding an open source replacement for > my trusty Windows 98 boot floppy (other than installing Windows, I > mainly use this for fdisk and delpart). I found this Linux distro > which is designed to work off a floppy disk: > http://www.toms.net/rb/ > > See you tommorrow at 3pm with some ideas about Software Freedom Day. > > RnB > Strypes you should have a look at the grml distro (grml.org), which is a sysadmin type distro, with allsorts of handy utils, and also the Ultimate Boot CD (I think there's a copy in Oblong, but there's probabaly a new version out.) which has different hardware diagnostics and fixing stuffs. seeya -n-