Daedalus0101101
Weaksauce
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2015
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- 110
So I bought this box based purely on seeing the size that another user here purchased. I thought the box was perfect and would fit anywhere I wanted it and I was correct at first. I installed Debian 7.8 " Weezy" and came to find out that the USB controller is not supported. How could I install it then you say? When you first boot the system, it is running on the BIOS system itself. When you install an OS and boot to it, it runs on that. Since the OS does not support the USB Controller, it "dies" right after booting into the OS. I cant configure any of the settings. I can't login to the console of the box. I can't even enable DHCP to where I can get it an IP address and log in remotely.
I wanted to throw out a warning to anyone purchasing this particular box that could be having difficulties getting Weezy up and running.
Intel Celeron J1900 Quad Core
I will be trying to install various Linux/Unix based systems on this to see if I can find any other compatible systems so that other people don't have to suffer what I went through for a few days. I would at least like to do something with this box other than be pissed that it didnt exceed my expectation. I gave it a high hoping since the price and hardware was right. I am merely hoping that I can recover and find a use for this decent piece of hardware. Hardware wise, I added a 120GB mSATA drive and 4GB RAM. It has the potential to be a decent little device for something but since it failed my initial hoping, I'm just not sure what yet.
I have not as yet to try install any further release of Debian on this box. I can not confirm or deny any further support of this hardware on any further version of Debian other than 7.8.
I wanted to throw out a warning to anyone purchasing this particular box that could be having difficulties getting Weezy up and running.
Intel Celeron J1900 Quad Core
I will be trying to install various Linux/Unix based systems on this to see if I can find any other compatible systems so that other people don't have to suffer what I went through for a few days. I would at least like to do something with this box other than be pissed that it didnt exceed my expectation. I gave it a high hoping since the price and hardware was right. I am merely hoping that I can recover and find a use for this decent piece of hardware. Hardware wise, I added a 120GB mSATA drive and 4GB RAM. It has the potential to be a decent little device for something but since it failed my initial hoping, I'm just not sure what yet.
I have not as yet to try install any further release of Debian on this box. I can not confirm or deny any further support of this hardware on any further version of Debian other than 7.8.
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