Testing laptops

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I have a standard procedure when receiving laptops (before use):

  • alter the BIOS / EFI settings to temporarily disable Secure Boot
  • live boot Linux from a ThumbDrive <reffthough I now have a PXE boot facility in my laboratory and will load live images into my repository
    • backup the disk drive image (either whole disk or each partition)
    • tests that I use to check out laptops:
  • live boot of Linux (e.g. lubuntu as it seems to have latest drivers)
    • phoronex test suit
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