Re: Cheap PC / unknown components. ALDI/Medion MD 8080 XL anyone?
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:07:24PM +0100, Mariano Kamp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I bought one of the "cheap" PCs from a german discounter. I am wondering if
> anybody has been able to install Debian on it? Any pointers would be nice.
>
> www.linux-hardware.de wasn't helpful.
>
> Allmost all the components are unknown when looking at the /proc/pci
> output. This is interesting, because I believe they used "brand" components.
> My guess is that they are a little bit modified to make sure that prices are
> not easily comparable. Is this likely to be true?
>
> Cheers,
> Mariano
>
If this is the PC for which you say in, an earlier email, that you can install
Knoppix on it, then you can also install Debian, but not as easily. Knoppix
is based on Debian. One way to get Debian is to install Knoppix and then
convert it to Debian by downloading packages over the internet.
HTH
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@peakpeak.com
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