About a week after it arrives, I will be shipping ebay-purchased laptop to a friend out of the country. Once shipped, it will be difficult to maintain. I've got the hard drive (new WD5000BEVT, good reviews on newegg and amazon) , battery, and a few other removables that will go on it, and I am testing them now, in a different laptop.
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat (10.04LTS Lucid had some issues, sigh). I added some plausible packages: bonnie, ctcs, phoronix, stress, stressapptest, and computertemp to make sure the laptop doesn't cook too much. Right now, I am running "bonnie" on the hard drive, for a day or two. When the target laptop arrives, I will load the removables on it and use one or two of the test packages. I have not used them before. Free Geek uses "stress" for a few minutes on their laptop. Rather than a quick but possibly damaging test, I would rather run something moderately stressful for days. Any suggestions? Keith PS: I don't want to repeatedly compile X - no good diagnostics! -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
