Re: Debian Linux on a Gericom A2
nb wrote:
Hi,
Did you succeed in installing Debian Linux on your Gericom A2 ?
If so please give me your lsmod results.
I'm interesting in buying one.
Any feedback about this machine is welcome.
Regards
I succeeded. But I would not go so far and call it a success. The
native installer didnt work since the CD ROM is an external USB 2
drive. The standard installer (and the standard kernel) has not enough
ACPI support built in to get the correct list of interrupts and such
so from a point on it just hangs.
My workaround:
- Resize the one XP partition using Partition Magic
- Create three new partitions using Partition Magic (ext3, swap, ext3)
- Create a new virtual machine using vmware that will the harddrive
(no virtual drive)
- Installed Woody into this virtual machine
- Installed lilo
- Copied the MRB lilo information into a file and copied this
information to the XP partition
- After this I was able to boot.
- But since the kernel didnt detect all of the devices and interrupts
the network interface, PCCARD slot and such were not detected
Thats it so far and I did not have the time to start another try
using a custom kernel with the ACPIp patch applied (will be the next
step).
If I was to choose again I would not go for the Gericom again though
it looks very nice. Instead, I would think about bying the small Dell
notebook.
Xela
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