diagnostics

hello. I use the now defunct everest home for my windows system to see information such as cpu, hard drives, motherboard etc. Is there anything i can use, online or off, to find out my hardware info on a linux system? it's just the cpu i need to find out really.

Thanks

Try running "dmesg" and have a look through the output. The output on mine includes:

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CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 08

0MB HIGHMEM available.
384MB LOWMEM available.

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I seem to remember "lspci" being good for add-in devices, but it's not installed on my system so I'm not sure if that's the right name or not.

I believe there are a couple different tools for this.
On Ubuntu try "lshw" (or "lshw -class processor").
Of course, "man lshw" for more information.
When looking for an unknown command try "apropos". For instance "apropos hardware" showed the "lshw" on Ubuntu.

What flavor are you using? There are various tools.

/proc has loads of info

/etc/$whatever will list other stuff like network etc...

And if you're booting to GUI, are you using GNOME or KDE? Each have there own various hardware equivilencies to msinfo32.exe

The important thing here is to remember that the *nix kernel builds to the CPU type you're running, so you can dig further using that information as well.

#cat /proc/meminfo
#cat /proc/cpuinfo

Don't forget your fdisk -l to check disk types

and if you're using scsi/ide/sata/sas you're /dev /sbin etc.. directories.

Each fllavor has its own tools so I would really need to know which one you're using to advise further.