During my programming work I had to do some system administration tasks, and since a while I'm also maintaining some servers. This is a log for the problems I find - and hopefully their solutions.

Monday, April 11, 2005

Rescue / burn-in boot cds

A friend of mine is having a new laptop today (the bastard) and I advised him to "burn-in" the beast before installing anything on it. And of course I didn't remember the name of the tool I use for this, so after some googleing I assembled this list, so next time I can just look it up here. (If I remember that I've posted it. Whatever.)
  • The Ultimate BootCD - all kinds of burn-in tests for RAM, CPU, HDD, etc.
  • KNOPPIX Linux LiveCD - there are thousands of different Linux LiveCDs out there now, but this I actually used before, and found out with great pleasure that it reads NTFS and burns CDs. Probably the others do too.
  • UBCD for Windows - Sideproject of The Ultimate BootCD, with a live windows (you'll need your install to build the cd) running from the cd itself. Sounds promising, but fortunately I never needed it yet.

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