From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 13 05:17:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAA4616A41F for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 05:17:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willmaier@ml1.net) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A1F043D46 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 05:17:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willmaier@ml1.net) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E362CCBB0F for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:17:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:17:30 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: g3q/YFEU8xm4/V4/2qcPOPPXsE7fZ+za0m/3q0p4/uJZ 1126588650 Received: from merkur (host-66-202-74-42.choiceone.net [66.202.74.42]) by frontend3.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5DF1E5 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:17:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by merkur (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 willmaier@ml1.net; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:17:34 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:17:33 -0500 From: Will Maier To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050913051733.GG30659@localhost.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050913010116.V1170@ganymede.hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050913010116.V1170@ganymede.hub.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Subject: Re: memory test off of a 'DISK-ON-KEY' device ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 05:17:31 -0000 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 -- o--------------------------{ Will Maier }--------------------------o | jabber:..wcmaier@jabber.ccc.de | email:..........wcmaier@ml1.net | | \.........wcmaier@cae.wisc.edu | \..........wcmaier@cae.wisc.edu | *------------------[ BSD Unix: Live Free or Die ]------------------*