From porr.4 at osu.edu Mon Dec 11 09:05:49 2006 From: porr.4 at osu.edu (Adam Porr) Date: Mon Dec 11 11:20:34 2006 Subject: [opensource] Boot/diagnostics/utility CD Message-ID: <2772ffef0612110605v1a8cc8ffr4f09bd518bcb4788@mail.gmail.com> Hi all I'm looking for a good boot CD that contains tools to do the following: * Identify components installed in a computer, including specs * Test memory * Wipe and test hard drives * Test optical drives and floppy drives * Stress test processor and motherboard We intend to use this CD at FreeGeek Columbus (http://freegeekcolumbus.org) to test components before assembling them into working systems. I'm currently looking at the Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/), however there are a lot of proprietary and shareware tools that we don't really need. Does anyone know of a boot CD that would satisfy these requirements but is better and (preferably) entirely free? Thanks! Adam -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F7F72CBA 2E02 EEAC EF67 E8B3 1FA5 6DF4 A0FB C0CF F7F7 2CBA From mistry.7 at osu.edu Mon Dec 11 11:41:49 2006 From: mistry.7 at osu.edu (Anish Mistry) Date: Mon Dec 11 11:41:02 2006 Subject: [opensource] Boot/diagnostics/utility CD In-Reply-To: <2772ffef0612110605v1a8cc8ffr4f09bd518bcb4788@mail.gmail.com> References: <2772ffef0612110605v1a8cc8ffr4f09bd518bcb4788@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <200612111141.58903.mistry.7@osu.edu> On Monday 11 December 2006 09:05, Adam Porr wrote: > Hi all > > I'm looking for a good boot CD that contains tools to do the > following: > > * Identify components installed in a computer, including specs > * Test memory > * Wipe and test hard drives > * Test optical drives and floppy drives > * Stress test processor and motherboard > > We intend to use this CD at FreeGeek Columbus > (http://freegeekcolumbus.org) to test components before assembling > them into working systems. I'm currently looking at the Ultimate > Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/), however there are a lot > of proprietary and shareware tools that we don't really need. Does > anyone know of a boot CD that would satisfy these requirements but > is better and (preferably) entirely free? http://www.sysresccd.org/ It doesn't have everything you listed, but you can always customize it. -- Anish Mistry -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/opensource/attachments/20061211/1868dbcb/attachment.bin From wrl at express.org Mon Dec 11 15:32:54 2006 From: wrl at express.org (William R. Lorenz) Date: Mon Dec 11 15:33:17 2006 Subject: [opensource] Boot/diagnostics/utility CD In-Reply-To: <2772ffef0612110605v1a8cc8ffr4f09bd518bcb4788@mail.gmail.com> References: <2772ffef0612110605v1a8cc8ffr4f09bd518bcb4788@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Adam, On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Adam Porr wrote: > I'm looking for a good boot CD that contains tools to do the following: > * Test memory FWIW, my favorite tool for this is memtest86 (memtest86.com). HTH. -- William R. Lorenz From triest.1 at osu.edu Mon Dec 11 16:50:32 2006 From: triest.1 at osu.edu (William Triest) Date: Mon Dec 11 17:54:03 2006 Subject: [opensource] Boot/diagnostics/utility CD In-Reply-To: References: <2772ffef0612110605v1a8cc8ffr4f09bd518bcb4788@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <457DD2A8.9040806@osu.edu> William R. Lorenz wrote: > >> * Test memory > > FWIW, my favorite tool for this is memtest86 (memtest86.com). HTH. > memtest is the best software memory tester I've come across, but beware that it is far from perfect. We have a number of comptuers for which it always fails. Its a known problem on some memory chip sets. So be some what skeptical. --Bill From bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu Mon Dec 11 19:48:47 2006 From: bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu (paul c betts) Date: Mon Dec 11 19:49:05 2006 Subject: [opensource] Boot/diagnostics/utility CD In-Reply-To: <457DD2A8.9040806@osu.edu> Message-ID: > memtest is the best software memory tester I've come across, but beware > that it is far from perfect. We have a number of comptuers for which it > always fails. Its a known problem on some memory chip sets. So be some > what skeptical. MemTest86+ (http://www.memtest.org) is better wrt this, it supports more chipsets (the guy who maintains it runs a French PC review site, so he has a ton of hardware laying around) -- Paul Betts From natrik at gmail.com Tue Dec 19 18:25:44 2006 From: natrik at gmail.com (Nate) Date: Tue Dec 19 19:08:58 2006 Subject: [opensource] Earlier days... [totally off-topic] Message-ID: This is only related to open source insofar as the link is served by Apache on Linux. But I'm sure some of you will love it. ;o) http://reef.arfy.org/gallery/early-osu/ (Also, please pardon my ssl-only server and my slow cable-upload speed.) Note: These images may be still be copyrighted. -- Nate From bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu Fri Dec 22 07:07:13 2006 From: bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu (paul c betts) Date: Fri Dec 22 07:07:31 2006 Subject: [opensource] First Post! Winter Quarter 07 Message-ID: Ok, so I came up with an idea (perhaps the most obvious idea we've blatantly missed!) for a presentation and I think we should make a big deal of it. I want to do a "How to contribute to Open Source software" presentation, cause we need to get all the enterprising OSU hackers doing awesome things: The plan is to follow a new feature through the entire process: 1. Let people know via Bugzilla what's wrong / what needs to be added 2. Download the source code from cvs/svn 3. Edit the code 4. Create and test a patch 5. Post it back Let me know if anyone wants to help, we could even make this into a multi-part series (epic perhaps?), similar to the series we had last year. -- Paul Betts From fritts.11 at osu.edu Fri Dec 22 12:28:44 2006 From: fritts.11 at osu.edu (AP Fritts) Date: Fri Dec 22 12:29:05 2006 Subject: [opensource] First Post! Winter Quarter 07 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <793414560612220928h6567c611kf6d1f6770f9fbb40@mail.gmail.com> Sounds wonderful!! What project are we going to work on? On 12/22/06, paul c betts wrote: > > Ok, so I came up with an idea (perhaps the most obvious idea we've > blatantly missed!) for a presentation and I think we should make a big > deal of it. I want to do a "How to contribute to Open Source software" > presentation, cause we need to get all the enterprising OSU hackers doing > awesome things: > > The plan is to follow a new feature through the entire process: > 1. Let people know via Bugzilla what's wrong / what needs to be added > 2. Download the source code from cvs/svn > 3. Edit the code > 4. Create and test a patch > 5. Post it back > > Let me know if anyone wants to help, we could even make this into a > multi-part series (epic perhaps?), similar to the series we had last year. > > -- > Paul Betts > > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > -- AP Fritts Mobile: 330-730-1404 AIM: apfritts oSTEM at Ohio State, Founding President HRC@OSU, Treasurer GLBT Student Leaders, Treasurer ChallengeX, Member -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/opensource/attachments/20061222/b382a96a/attachment.html From lee.2817 at osu.edu Fri Dec 22 13:37:20 2006 From: lee.2817 at osu.edu (Sean Lee) Date: Fri Dec 22 13:37:39 2006 Subject: [opensource] First Post! Winter Quarter 07 In-Reply-To: <793414560612220928h6567c611kf6d1f6770f9fbb40@mail.gmail.com> References: <793414560612220928h6567c611kf6d1f6770f9fbb40@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: BERYL!!! On 12/22/06, AP Fritts wrote: > > Sounds wonderful!! What project are we going to work on? > > On 12/22/06, paul c betts wrote: > > > > Ok, so I came up with an idea (perhaps the most obvious idea we've > > blatantly missed!) for a presentation and I think we should make a big > > deal of it. I want to do a "How to contribute to Open Source software" > > presentation, cause we need to get all the enterprising OSU hackers > > doing > > awesome things: > > > > The plan is to follow a new feature through the entire process: > > 1. Let people know via Bugzilla what's wrong / what needs to be added > > 2. Download the source code from cvs/svn > > 3. Edit the code > > 4. Create and test a patch > > 5. Post it back > > > > Let me know if anyone wants to help, we could even make this into a > > multi-part series (epic perhaps?), similar to the series we had last > > year. > > > > -- > > Paul Betts < bettsp@cse.ohio-state.edu> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensource mailing list > > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > > > > > > -- > AP Fritts > Mobile: 330-730-1404 > AIM: apfritts > > oSTEM at Ohio State, Founding President > HRC@OSU, Treasurer > GLBT Student Leaders, Treasurer > ChallengeX, Member > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Here is a list: HP Scanjet 4300C 512MB DDR 266 ECC RAM (It might be burnt out, so we would probably want to test it before trying it in a computer...can anyone do that?) 2 Linksys 10/100 NIC 1 NIC of unknown make and origin Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live sound card (24-bit I think) Creative Labs sound card (16-bit I think) LITE-ON 52x32x52 CD-RW Drive Let me know if we want them for the computer lab! AP -- AP Fritts Mobile: 330-730-1404 AIM: apfritts oSTEM at Ohio State, Founding President HRC@OSU, Treasurer GLBT Student Leaders, Treasurer ChallengeX, Member Open Source Club, Member -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/opensource/attachments/20061231/3b0f28ab/attachment.html