Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:22:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ronald F.Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: rfg@tristatelogic.com Subject: misc/177450: LiveCD should include smartmontools/smartctl Message-ID: <20130328202210.708223BB59@segfault.tristatelogic.com> Resent-Message-ID: <201303282030.r2SKU14m052615@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 177450 >Category: misc >Synopsis: LiveCD should include smartmontools/smartctl >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Mar 28 20:30:00 UTC 2013 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Ronald F. Guilmette >Release: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE amd64 >Organization: entr0py >Environment: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE amd64 >Description: I may be wrong, but I believe that one of the purposes of allowing a user who has one of the release distributions to boot into a "LiveCD" version of FreeBSD is so that obscure problems... often obscure _hardware_ problems... can be diagnosed without the need for actually performing a full blown install of FreeBSD. In this vein, it would enhance the usefulness of the LiveCD enormously if the LiveCD actually contained a pre-built copy of smartmontools, or at the very least, the smartctl utility. >How-To-Repeat: N/A >Fix: Add pre-built smartmontools to the LiveCD. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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