On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:12 -0400, Devon Miller wrote: > Does anyone know of a bootable CD intended for testing laptop (or > desktop) functionality? > > I'm hoping someone out there has built something on top of Knoppix or > Gentoo's LiveCD that will examine the hardware and report what's good > and what's bad.
any live CD should do (even the gentoo live cd?) - just run `lspci`, then come back here with the results! If they're friendly, you can even go back and forth with a usb-key and try compiling things on it, or installing binary drivers (if you want to go that way). all on your live-cd of course. There is a not-too-bad list of live CD's here: http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php but I don't so much like the top of the list :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> <dracus> Ctrl+Option+Command + P + R <Knghtbrd> dracus - YE GODS! That's worse than EMACS! <LauraDax> hehehehe <dracus> don't ask what that does :P -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
