<div dir="ltr">dmidecode should work in any Linux:<br><br><br>man dmidecode<br><br>DMIDECODE(8) DMIDECODE(8)<br><br><br><br>NAME<br> dmidecode - DMI table decoder<br><br>SYNOPSIS<br>
dmidecode [OPTIONS]<br><br><br>DESCRIPTION<br> dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say<br> SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. This ta$B!>(B<br> ble contains a description of the system's hardware compo$B!>(B<br>
nents, as well as other useful pieces of information such<br> as serial numbers and BIOS revision. Thanks to this table,<br> you can retrieve this information without having to probe<br> for the actual hardware. While this is a good point in<br>
terms of report speed and safeness, this also makes the<br> presented information possibly unreliable.<br><br clear="all">^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<br>sometimes truth is stranger than fiction<br>
-bad religion-<br><a href="http://www.bloglines.com/blog/mailist">http://www.bloglines.com/blog/mailist</a><br>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<br>I don't think the computers will take over the world. I have a bucket of water.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Stephen Harris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@spuddy.org">lists@spuddy.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:26:30AM -0700, MHR wrote:<br>
> Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my<br>
> DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should<br>
> have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that<br>
> from at least one piece of software on the system, but I couldn't<br>
> remember one and man -k on a number of subjects was unrevealing.<br>
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</div>On a Dell, "dmidecode" will give you the serial number of the system.<br>
(I can see motherboard, chasis, memory sticks on my machine).<br>
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Doubt if you can get the serial number of the DVD burner.<br>
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rgds<br>
<font color="#888888">Stephen<br>
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