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f12f12
21-02-11, 12:14
so i had a brain wave today. you know when your over clocking and a few times the pc will just crash and windows doesn't like this.

so how about a portable Linux that has a integrated stressing tool and monitoring tool. thus not killing windows when trying to find the best clock?

thoughts?
Jackster
21-02-11, 12:20
mm Good idea.

GET CODING!
andyn
21-02-11, 12:25
http://freshmeat.net/projects/stress/

Should be fairly easy to set up a 'live' thumbdrive install of ubuntu or similar with this on it.
AaronWHUFC
21-02-11, 12:25
LinPack works on Linux AFAIK.
Burn-IT
21-02-11, 12:38
How about a utility that you can choose your linux and it does all the work of building the stick for you??

Well there is one and it does work. I've done it using version 5.2 of Puppy Linux just to test it.

It builds a bootable(or not) Portable Virtualbox running the Linux you choose. see: http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ (http://www.linuxliveusb.com/)

It is useful in that you can (as well) run exactly the same install under VirtualBox from the USB as a totally Portable app - including the portable virtualbox. So you could (if allowed) use it at work at lunch time without interfering or rebooting your Work's Windows.
f12f12
21-02-11, 12:43
How about a utility that you can choose your linux and it does all the work of building the stick for you??

Well there is one and it does work. It builds a bootable(or not) Portable Virtualbox running the Linux you choose. see: http://www.linuxliveusb.com/

AH HA. one step ahead of you their. already running it, its a great little tool. brilliant for taking the first Linux steps.

now to take it a step further if it could then install programs to the selected version now that would be cool.
Burn-IT
21-02-11, 12:55
I'm sure that with a little fiddling you could get it to work with a pre-built virtual machine. In any case I prefer to install the programs myself as I tend to use different locations than the defaults (especially for data so I can share it between OSs)
andyn
21-02-11, 12:57
http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/
f12f12
21-02-11, 13:04
http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/

hey that's just what i was thinking.
Lorem-Ipsum
21-02-11, 13:12
Nice! I built myself an arch linux live disk with mprime and lmsensors but this is much better.
f12f12
21-02-11, 13:16
that's if i could get it to download. any one having problems?

maybe its just me being a numpty but i can't get it to download the latest ISO.
Pullen
21-02-11, 13:18
that's if i could get it to download. any one having problems?

maybe its just me being a numpty but i can't get it to download the latest ISO.

I can http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/downloads/1
f12f12
21-02-11, 13:19
I can http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/downloads/1

page just loads blank and says done. am i being impatient? or is there a problem?

never mind got it.
Pullen
21-02-11, 13:21
page just loads blank and says done. am i being impatient? or is there a problem?

What browser are you using? Chrome d/l's it straight away for me.
f12f12
21-02-11, 13:25
firefox. a refresh got things started.