[Gloucs] Help Wanted

[Mike Tonge]

Thanks for the reply Keith.

I just ran lshw on my laptop, it told me that I have 511MB of memory and
mentions nothing about hard drives. I seem to remember that when I was
running Kubuntu, there was an app. which showed information about the
whole system in a nice format. I am using Ubuntu now and I can't find
it.

sysresccd does look promising as a starting point, but I have trouble
believing that nobody else has done what I'm trying to do already, and I
don't want to start reinventing the wheel.

Regards

Mike Tonge

On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 14:39 +0000, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:30:19 +0000, tongemichael at googlemail.com said:
> 
> > I'm trying to find a way to easily detect the hardware on a PC with no
> > OS
> 
> That sounds like a challenge too far! Especially for non-tech people.
> 
> > Another possible solution is to use knoppix and add extra app's and
> > scripts to do the work.
> 
> I'd do that, or maybe even use the SystemRescueCD
> (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page), which includes lshw - if you want to
> see a sample output of lshw, mail me offlist.
> 
> Keith
>