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? -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements | | and make them into big productions." | | Pitr Dubovitch | +------------------------------------------------------------+
