Here is one that was recommended to me by a friend some time ago:<div><a href="http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/">http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/</a></div><div>It is not strictly Linux based, but does use a lot of opensource utilities.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Michael Potter<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed June 30 2010, Larry Johnson wrote:<br>
> I need a live CD to use for basically booting up a machine and doing<br>
> hardware detection and diagnostics. I can do that with pretty much any<br>
> Linux live CD, but is there a distribution which is particularly well<br>
> suited for this?<br>
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</div><a href="http://knoppix.org" target="_blank">knoppix.org</a> is the usual suggestion..<br>
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