Re: Boot kernel in order to test hardware?

To: "I. Tura" <seasidefront@yahoo.fr>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Boot kernel in order to test hardware?
From: tavasti@iki.fi (M. Tavasti)
Date: 27 Jun 2000 18:29:15 +0300
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In-reply-to: "I. Tura"'s message of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:49:03 +0200"
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"I. Tura" <seasidefront@yahoo.fr> writes:

> Due to the fact that I don't know if the hardware still runs well, is it a
> good idea to run a floppy kernel ten times consecutively, for example, to
> take an initial (or decent) idea of the health of the hardware? 

Maybe that's not telling you much, but how about booting it up with
some floppy-linux, and running badblocks? 

http://www.toms.net/rb/

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