hello
what can I do to find out how many ram, size of hard drive, .....and so on, I have in my pc.
I'm new w/ Linux and what ever I know with window doesnot neceseray work.
Thank you
Jpfrenchy

uname -a will give your hostname and kernel name

have a look at lspci

sudo /proc/meminfo
* will give you info about memory


I just smashed this as i have to go to class :S (night time classes !! arrgghhh !! )

But this will get you going if no-one else comments soon. Just do a quick google search! it will turn up heaps i just had a quick look

Have a good one.

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Hi,

try
This will give you a huge amount of information about your pc, probably too much for a newbie. So here are some other commands that will also give you some info (not all) about your pc (run as root):

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df -h would be friendlier for hard disk sizes.

This will report only mounted partitions and not the device itself.

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Other options may include lshw, lsusb and the contents of /var/log/boot.log, /var/log/dmesg.
also, please post output of
and add to your profile; it should tell you what distro & version you have.

HTH & Welcome to LQ

PS good tutorial
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

What distro are you using?

Debian comes with a "System Information" tool which as actually a program called "hardinfo." It will display the information in a way that someone used to Windows System-->Device manager will quickly become comfortable with.

Gnome has a Gnome Control Center which will give you a lot of that information, and KDE as a System Information application.

If you don't have hardinfo installed, you can likely find it in your repos if you have a system that uses repositories.

The HardInfo website appears to be broken right now. Here's a link to a blog post I wrote about it last year: http://www.geekazine.com/news/franks...mation-utility

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hardinfo is hardinfo when you check the packages with debian, it just appears as 'system profiler and benchmark' in the menus. (I really wish that debian would fix that, hardinfo isnt a good benchmarker).

The KDE 'System Information application' is kinfocenter.

That covers the only tools I use commonly to get hardware info, lshw and hardinfo. I do use the others from time to time, but lshw gets by far the most use.

You can find out a lot of that info from the BIOS as well. OS free hardware info.

[QUOTE=Anisha Kaul;4452748]That's is one of the most (if not the most) complete command to get info about your hardware.

Thanks. I couldn't remember whether or not KDE had changed the name for v. 3.x.

I find kinfocenter provides far more thorough information than Gnome Control Center.