This must be one of the smallest and quietest computers to run OI. It's a Partaker Fanless Mini PC. It's quite small, but has an Intel Celeron J4125 Quad Core CPU. It also has built-in Intel graphics, with an HDMI and display port video ports. This machine also has two ethernet ports, both of which I wanted since I intended it as a NAT router.
When I first tried it, I got no output on a VGA monitor, even though I used two different VGA adaptors. When I switched to an HDMI monitor, I got immediate output. It seemed to boot freebsd, not the windows 10 that was advertized, and have no BIOS. I was wrong there: it does have a BIOS. Pressing the DEL key at the right time does display the BIOS setup screen. You have to press DEL as soon as the keyboard becomes active. The first thing to change is the boot delay. Setting it to 10, from 1, will give you lots of time to press DEL, and will display a message telling you what key to press. There's no boot menu in the BIOS setup, and no USB stick entry in the boot priorities. Nevertheless, it is possible to boot it from a USB stick. Magically, a USB stick will appear in the list of priorities once you insert a USB stick. All you have to do is to move it to the top of the list. This process must be re-done on each reboot. I did this to boot memtest86, the OI-gui stick, and the OI-text USB stick. There were no significant missing drivers. Ultimately, I installed the OI-gui distribution, and upgraded it to the latest OI. That's what the system is running now. I used the gui version mainly because I only know how to use the Network GUI to configure the network. I won't need a console once the configuration is complete. I certainly will never need the web browser. -- -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss