[linuxplay_oblong] Re: Hardware troubleshooting tools
- From: Niklas Rehfeld <chaos.squirrel@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: linuxplay_oblong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:13:23 +0200
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-
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