On Monday 15 May 2006 19:51, motivated wrote: > Can I use Knoppix to find any hardware prolems ?? Depends, You can use some of the unix utilities to do some very basic tests, but the Windows world has many more in-depth test programs. One of the more useful unix tools is the smartmon package. It tells you about the state of the disk. http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools but that page is far from being supremely informative.
> I have a copy here. There is a memory test program on the Knoppix disc. Boot it, and run it overnight, it can't do any damage. at the boot prompt check the acceptable words using the function keys F2 and F3. At this point it tells you whether you say memtest or memtest86. Sorry, I can't remember which. Some LiveCDs use one and some the other. Then you might care to boot up knoppix itself and demo Linux to your friend. > My thoughts were that (as he purchased this thing from Smiths City > Market) thats its just a pretty crappy computer with an even worse OS > install. Problem is that he had it for quite some time then started > having problems with it, from what I can figure he had a mountain of > viruses, dialers etc. After taking it in for repairs the OS came back > completely useless, unfortunitely he thought it was his lack of > knowledge and didn't realise the OS wasn't working, at least 12mths have > now past. You might care to tell us a bit more about the machine in question. > I just dont want to install another OS if its a hardware problem. If its > hardware I would rather go to war with Smiths. BTW, Two points: You are in the wrong list for MS support, and that young Bill was running around in short trousers when Unix, and its precursors were doing their thing. So it's Bill's code that's all arse about tit. Yes it really is. He's realised it, because it's reported that at last the new server product actually works in a very similar fashion to what we are used to. -- CS
