On Feb 9, 2012 10:18 PM, "Paul Hartman" <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Michael Hampicke <gentoo-u...@hadt.biz> wrote: > >> 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. > > > > Some days ago I was using the parted magic live cd [1]. It had a tool > > that listed all hardware in a nice fashion. I don't recall it's name - > > but looking at the list of programs that come with parted magic [2] I > > guess it was hardinfo. > > > > [1] http://partedmagic.com/ > > [2] http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=programs > > I'll give another vote for partedmagic, aside from running gparted > it's also got some good general-purpose tools. It also loads itself > into RAM and ejects the disc once it's loaded, so if you're using it > on multiple machines you can use one disc to load them all at once. >
Although a nice benefit, I think I'm going to do it the old way... after all, everytime I have to shutdown a box, I have to first migrate the VMs within to another host. So, no chance to shut them all at the same time. Rgds,
