Check For Bad Hardware from Live CD

[vegipowrd]

My wife's Apple iBook has crashed and won't boot OSX. I purchased it used, so rather than pop in the Apple hardware utility disc, I tried a Ubuntu Live CD (Dapper, the last ppc version).

The thing fired up better than some Xubuntu machines I have at work :). I assume the only way this is possible is if the iBook's hard drive is bad and everything else is okay. I'm looking for some hardware checking utilities in Dapper and I can't seem to find them. Any suggestions on utilities to look for before I start pricing hard drives?

[aheckler]

You might try burning this (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) to a CD and trying some of the hard disk tests on it.

[vegipowrd]

I guess I should just try it and see, but has anyone tried this thing with a PowerPC machine? It looks like what I need, but makes no mention of differing architecture.