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Best way to get good hardware information?

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PopeKevinI

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Anyone who has to support a lot of Windows sytems knows that the OS is horrible at telling you what it actually needs drivers for. "C-Media Audio Device" is hardly sufficient. I've found that Linux is a lot more forthcoming, and have used Ubuntu livecds in the past to get needed information out of the system.

I was wondering if there were a better way than waiting for a full Linux OS to load; either a Linux or DOS-based boot disk that could give us the information we need in a much shorter time...a live cd on a P2/400 with 128 MB RAM can take quite a while to get XWindows up and running...and we have to support quite a few of those dinosaurs.

What do you guys use?
 
How about loading that livecd onto a compact flash card and booting off that instead, that would be much quicker for sure.
 
valve1138 said:
How about loading that livecd onto a compact flash card and booting off that instead, that would be much quicker for sure.
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It's a resource issue. With so little RAM and no HDD paging, it's limited more by the system than the CD-ROM. I know this because it boots substantially faster on a high-end system.
 
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