Re: Cheap PC / unknown components. ALDI/Medion MD 8080 XL anyone?

[Mariano Kamp <mkamp@gmx.de>]

On Friday 05 December 2003 23:22, Paul E Condon wrote:
> 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.

Paul,

  thanks for taking the time.

  Yet, it is the same pc. What I don't want is a Knoppix System. I want 
debian. Looking at the etc directory and some other stuff, I believe there 
are differences between Knoppix and Debian. 

  Yes, in theory it should work on Debian when it works on Knoppix, but when 
having to use the old installer then the modules are very much out of date. 
In this particular example, I don't get the network up, so it is pretty much 
pointless to use the old installer. Btw. The old installer was not even able 
to cope with a 160GB hd.

Cheers,
Mariano