DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Burn-in utilities for DSL over PXE

I work for a systems integrator and we would love to replace our current burn-in suite with something with less of a footprint and a much improved degree of flexibility. I'm trying to set up DSL to boot up over PXE into an automated burn-in, but every decent linux burn-in utility I've tried won't compile, maybe I'm just inexperienced. I want something that isn't just designed to make the CPUs hot or the memory. We would like to test disk I/O, network, RAM, CPU (multi-processing support), 2d or 3d video is a bonus. I've found an app called Cerberus that seems to include all of this. The sources are about 125KB.

I think DSL has a lot of potential as a thin-client platform and I use it when I want to use a computer but not worry about passwords or messing up someone's system. Additionally, the minimal size and the flexibility via myDSL makes this distribution ideal for a PXE-based thin-client. And the fact that it runs on most anything is pretty nifty as well.

I would love to see some burn-in utilities available via myDSL and a broader support for SCSI/RAID as we deal with a lot of that, but I know it's a lot of space for a very small percentage of users.

Have you got booting via PXE sorted or are you still working on it? The infomation at the end of this thread should help. In that thread there's a link to a web site with an initrd for a net boot of Knoppix which works fine with DSL.

original here.