Burn-in utilities for DSL over PXEForum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions Topic: Burn-in utilities for DSL over PXE started by: jcampbell Posted by jcampbell on Sep. 07 2005,17:06
I work for a systems integrator and we would love to replace our current burn-in suite with something with less of a footprint and a much improved degree of flexibility. I'm trying to set up DSL to boot up over PXE into an automated burn-in, but every decent linux burn-in utility I've tried won't compile, maybe I'm just inexperienced. I want something that isn't just designed to make the CPUs hot or the memory. We would like to test disk I/O, network, RAM, CPU (multi-processing support), 2d or 3d video is a bonus. I've found an app called < Cerberus > that seems to include all of this. The sources are about 125KB.I think DSL has a lot of potential as a thin-client platform and I use it when I want to use a computer but not worry about passwords or messing up someone's system. Additionally, the minimal size and the flexibility via myDSL makes this distribution ideal for a PXE-based thin-client. And the fact that it runs on most anything is pretty nifty as well. I would love to see some burn-in utilities available via myDSL and a broader support for SCSI/RAID as we deal with a lot of that, but I know it's a lot of space for a very small percentage of users. Posted by friedgold on Sep. 07 2005,22:03
Have you got booting via PXE sorted or are you still working on it? The infomation at the end of < this thread > should help. In that thread there's a link to a web site with an initrd for a net boot of Knoppix which works fine with DSL.
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