On 5 Apr, 02:50, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 01:29:26PM -0700, remigio wrote: > > I'd like to buy an Acer Aspire m1610 for a very convenient low price, > > but before this I want to know the Debian Etch compatibility on this > > pc. Have someone had an experience in this way? > > Thanks very much. > > Don't know but if its hot-off-the-press, remember that Etch isn't. By > the time Stable becomes Stable (as Etch did a year ago), it doesn't take > long before bleeding edge hardware requries a newer kernel. > > Therefore, you may find that the Etch installer doesn't detect > everything and you'll need either Lenny or Sid. > > Suggestion: burn the netinst.iso for Etch and try booting it on the box. > Go to a shell and look at the dmesg and check syslog for errors. > > Doug. >
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