On Feb 9, 2012 12:58 PM, "Joshua Murphy" <poiso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > > Excuse me for starting an off-topic thread, > > > > 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. > > > > It's gotta be a Live CD because the boxes currently installed are running > > either VMware or XenServer and I am reluctant to open them up. So I guess > > I'll just shutdown the box, boot using the Live CD, record all important > > info, and reboot into the hypervisor. > > > > Rgds, > > Pretty much any livecd that'll boot can do the job... lspci -vv, > /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/meminfo, and fdisk -l (which'll catch any drives > the running kernel sees at least) are pretty standard, and it wouldn't > take much to include a script that calls those, dumps the output > somewhere, then reboots. For more extensive info, dmidecode and lshw > tend to give more detail, but are a little less 'standard'. Notably, > dmidecode gives things like per-slot ram information. >
Well, I need that kind of information, so I guess I'll have to go "non-standard" :-) Rgds,
