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.
I have recently bought a medion PC (not sure of model name) and I have
installed debian on it with very few problems.
> Allmost all the components are unknown when looking at the /proc/pci
> output. This is interesting, because I believe they used "brand" components.
My /proc/pci output does not contain 'unknown'.
Sorry this isn't of much help. If you bought it pre-packaged, did it
come with another OS installed? Does that OS know what hardware it is
running on?
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Jon Dowland
http://jon.dowland.name/
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