On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com 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.
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