cant get any distro working on medion atom netbook
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Depends on the atom. cmoov or some opcode missing on older ones. Debian normally works for me. Perhaps try a 32 bit distro to avoid the issue, but not really ideal as you'll lack things that route. My dads old atom laptop crashed on ubuntu, doing a dd, but mostly worked. I installed debian on that thing and it was solid. Although not a very useful machine with only 1GB ram, by modern standards.
Edit: My dads laptop was definitely 64 bit. And a bit surprised how well it's wifi worked out of the box on debian.
There are a lot of Medion notebooks out there, so the model would be helpful here.
Medion has notebooks which use the ATOM Bay Trail processor.
I run an older Intel Atom N270 notebook using Debian and Mint Cinnamon Debian Edition and it works fine. The key there being Debian roots versus Ubuntu. I have found that normal Mint, which is Ubuntu based does not work on it.
I have a HP Mini with a N450. I installed Slackware 64 bit on it. Everything works as expected. The track point was a little tricky to get working.
I upgrade the memory to 2 gig, removed the 120 gig HD, and put a 249 gig SSD in it. The system boots in about 30 seconds and is a very nice travelling laptop.
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