[olug] Installfest & RSVP

[Jay Swackhamer]

Dont forget the 'Ultimate boot cd' with memtest86/linux rescue
disk/windows password recovery/dos ntfs tools/ plus a whole lot more!

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

>
>>Jeff Hinrichs wrote:
>>> Maybe some knoppix cds?  After reading the MDK article on /. last night
> [snip]
>>> -Jeff
>
> Timothy "Irish" O'Brien wrote:
>> Always bring some Knoppix CD's! Always! It is a superb tool - great with
>> the auto discovery of devices, and you can install it to the local HD.
>
> And another good tool to have around is the Memtest86
> (http://www.memtest86.com/) utility.  If you grab a Gentoo CD, it is one
> of the boot options, or you can make a bootable diskette with the binary.
> It is a totally stand-alone binary -- no OS, only needs ~80-120K (K!!!)
> bytes of RAM to run.
>
> I was having problems installing Windows XP on my mother-in-laws computer
> over Thanksgiving weekend.  It would fail at really random times during
> the install.  I finally broke down and ran Memtest86 overnight(note1) and
> it found a couple bad spots in the stick of RAM I had put in earlier.
> Once I took it out, the system installed like a charm.
>
> Dan
>
> note1: The quick test on this system -- Duron 1.6GHz, 128MB RAM -- took
> about an hour.  The intensive test of RAM took overnight.  Thankfully the
> quick test found the error for me over lunch! :)
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