On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Rony <[email protected]> wrote: > > I regularly use 'finnix' as a bootable CD to get a root command prompt > with lots of utilities for system maintainence. This time the latest > version 101 was downloaded and burned. Along with the usual boot time > utilities, I found a nice option called 'Hardware Detection Tool'. This > is very useful to get details about your motherboard, chips, devices > etc. without opening your machine. Very quick and handy. > > So..... go ahead and try it out. > > http://www.finnix.org/ >
It is definitely worth a try. I have been using SystemRescueCD. It is based on Gentoo and it has a plethora of sys admin tools including FreeDOS to install firmware updates. It also has a minimalist XFCE desktop with FF to browse for searches and answers on the 'Net - no need to switch to another system. <http://www.sysresccd.org/Download> -- Arun Khan -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
