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bbengs
12-21-2008, 05:36 PM
I am looking for a live CD that will test all hardware components on a PC. I am unable to find a program within Knoppix that will do that. I might just be overlooking it. But is there one out there that I can run that will do a full system diagnostics of the hardware?
Thanks.
OErjan
12-21-2008, 07:22 PM
uhm, there are several ways to get diagnostics
memtest for memory checking.
smartmontools for hard drives.
lshw litsts all hardware (if it is implemented).
lspci -vv will give you a looong list of hardware with detailed information on the hardware (if detected correctly).
the command for USB is (you guessed it)
lsusb -vv
for any errors encountered read the files under /var/log/ (text files) specifically
/var/log/syslog
/var/log/dmesg
/var/log/messages
/var/log/debug
Unix (Linux) is aimed at "one command one action, and do it well" many of the graphical programs use the command line commands, just allows for other output/input method.
if you can be ore specific with what you want to test it can likely be done in one go. if not otherwise very likely as a script executing commands above and some others then searching the output and logs for certain lines (error, failed would be good guesses) using cat, grep, sort... with pipes and redirections.
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