[ILUG] Testing Hardware

[kevin lyda]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:17:07AM +0000, P at draigBrady.com wrote:
> I noticed the Fedora Core 2 test 1 boot CD
> has a memtest86 test option. Adding in
> badblocks and http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/cpuburn.html
> for e.g. wouldn't be a bad idea at all.

well the install process can test the partitions as they are being
formatted (it uses badblocks to do that).  it can also test the install
cd's integrity (and might i suggest[0] NOT skipping that step).

kevin

[0] from recent bitter experience

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