On Saturday 06 December 2003 14:45, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:07:24PM +0100, Mariano Kamp wrote: > > 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'. After using the new installer and kernel 2.4.22 /proc/pci doesn't contain any "unknowns" anymore. Still "lscpi -vv | grep -i unknown | wc -l returns" 14, but it doesn't seem to me that this is a problem. We'll see. > Sorry this isn't of much help. If you bought it pre-packaged, did it > come with another OS installed? It came with XP Home Edition, but as it never saw the light on my box, it shouldn't have hurt my box ;-) >>Does that OS know what hardware it is > running on? A friend of mine bought the same box and did send me screenshots what the other OS detected. Anyway the package lshw (and the newer kernel) did a great job in identifying the components, so I hopefully wouldn't need to fall back on that. Just curious. You bought a Medion PC outside of Germany? Cheers, Mariano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
