Re: Debian on a Walmart Microtel???
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 11:41, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> I don't know of anyone running Debian on a Microtel, but I know a friend who
> successfully installed SuSE 7.3 on one, so I would assume you should be able
> to get Debian going. It's worth pointing out the two flaws he found:
>
> 1.) The CD-ROM was on cable select, and confused Linux (post-install). He
> fixed this, AFAIK.
> 2.) The modem is a winmodem (of course).
>
> -Tim
The impression I got was that since video wasn't mentioned, there
was some sort of on-mobo shared memory setup. Can anyone verify
that?
> On Monday 11 March 2002 06:54 am, Glen Snyder wrote:
> > Walmart Microtel PCs were recently touted as an alternative for Linux
> > users, since you can now purchase them at a lower cost without the OS.
> > My neighbor was asking about them and we checked the web page. I didn't
> > recommend it, since there is not much info on the hardware. Nor can we
> > seem to find any info on Linux hardware pages about these systems. So
> > the question arises.....are there any Debian users who have actually
> > installed on a Microtel box?
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