Knoppix as a Diagnostic CD

[Mumtaz]

I was just wondering if there is a version/derivative of Knoppix which works like a diagnostic CD:

i- provides system information (processor, RAM, devices, etc.
[after all most of this information is displayed at boot time. how to access this once the system is booted?]


ii- runs tests like memtest, cpubenchmarks, video tests on demand
[one of the cheat codes in the latest version (3.4) has memtest]


Is there such a beast out there?

[paradocs]

Hi Mumtaz,
I am not a specalst in getting all the computer
system data, but KNOPPIX can give you a lot
information.

K --> System --> Info Center

K --> System --> KDE System Guard

I am useing kantotix at the moment and there is a fun
add on utility xmbmon and mbmon to watch
your fan speed, mother board and chip
temperatures and voltages.

You can get mprime235.tar.gz to run a
stability test from http://www.mersenne.org

I do not know of a special project to gather all
this data automatically, but you could work
on it.

Best Wishes
paradocs

[OErjan]

in the console you find the powertools.
among these dmesg>dmesg.txt makes the text you see at boot into a text document in your home directory.

then you have lspci and lsmod, Ls means list--> lsmod=list modules, thereby displaying pci-cards and loaded modules.
to make things interesting there is a bunch of cat /proc/* among the usefull are replacing * with cpuinfo and interrupts.

[arkaine23]

I included some apps like prime95, seti@home, folding@home, memtest, and cpuburn in my remaster, Overclockix (http://overclockix.octeams.com). These are mainly for stress testing and benchmarking.

There's also some system monitoring utilities done through a program called karamba.

http://overclockix.octeams.com/snapshot19.jpg