Re: memory test off of a 'DISK-ON-KEY' device ... ?

2005-09-13 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 9/13/05, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to run some tests on a new server that I'm putting together,
> and would like to run some memory tests ... I found memtest86, but it runs
> on floppies, which doesn't help me, since I don't have a floppy drive on
> this thing :(
...

Memtest86 runs on CDs too: http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.2.iso.zip

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Re: memory test off of a 'DISK-ON-KEY' device ... ?

2005-09-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw

Chris Howells wrote:


On Tuesday 13 September 2005 05:03, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
 


I'm trying to run some tests on a new server that I'm putting together,
and would like to run some memory tests ... I found memtest86, but it runs
on floppies, which doesn't help me, since I don't have a floppy drive on
this thing :(
   



The bootable CD version?
 


ISO's of newer memtest86+ here:

http://www.memtest.org/

--Alex

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Re: memory test off of a 'DISK-ON-KEY' device ... ?

2005-09-12 Thread Chris Howells
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 05:03, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> I'm trying to run some tests on a new server that I'm putting together,
> and would like to run some memory tests ... I found memtest86, but it runs
> on floppies, which doesn't help me, since I don't have a floppy drive on
> this thing :(

The bootable CD version?

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Re: memory test off of a 'DISK-ON-KEY' device ... ?

2005-09-12 Thread Will Maier
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 01:03:08AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> I'm trying to run some tests on a new server that I'm putting
> together, and would like to run some memory tests ... I found
> memtest86, but it runs on floppies, which doesn't help me, since I
> don't have a floppy drive on this thing :(

The Linuxes tend to run memtest86 from the hard drive; you can do
that on FreeBSD as well. See the following relevant messages:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2004-February/005799.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2004-February/005800.html

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