Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:45:25PM +0100, Mariano Kamp (mkamp@gmx.de) wrote: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, MarianoIf 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.First: Knoppix is (largely) the same as Debian. The packaging system is identical, the default packages differ somewhat. More significantly: get a Knoppix disk. Use it to identify the HW on the system. The 'lshw' command is useful, as is my own system-info script: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/LinuxSystemInfoScript
lspci in my Sarge sys is not in /sbin but in /usr/bin.Wouldn't it be better to find out where those commands are rather than using hardcoded? But did you look at Klaus Knopper's scripts? Work rather nicely... I like his boot option "knoppix 2". You need no code to get that to work! I asked him how it worked and all I got back was "man init"... ;-)
Hugo.
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 muchout of date.Then use debootstrap to perform a chroot install under Knoppix as described in the Debian Installation Manual. Or use another installer: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/installers.htmlIn 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.Google "large disk HOWTO". bf2.4 install option may help you. Or a chroot (my own preference), as mentioned above. Peace.