Open-Source Diagnostic Disc

Here are images for a diagnostic boot floppy containing several bootable open-source programs which are useful for diagnosing, setting up and repairing PC systems. All programs are released under the GNU General Public License. See the individual program homepages for full details of the terms of use for each program.

You can use this from a CD by using an appropriate ElTorito emulation.

contents:

• GRUB version 0.97.
• x86test version 0.10a.
• Memtest86+ version 1.55.1.

Send suggestions or comments (and x86test bugs) to: x86test@vortex.prodigynet.co.uk

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Note: these are just compressed floppy disk images. Windows users will probably want to check out RawWrite to write them.

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