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02-03-2017, 07:19 AM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2011
Location: Republic Of Ireland
Distribution: Debian,Centos,Slackware
Posts: 508
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cant get any distro working on medion atom netbook
tried
lubuntu
ubuntu
puppy
zorin
and a few others
just hits a black screen somewhere during installation
do distros not run well on atom cpu
some moan about kernel support for x86_64 and this is an i686
but its def 32bit i downloaded
any ideas?
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02-03-2017, 07:32 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: debian
Posts: 4,137
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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.
Last edited by Shadow_7; 02-03-2017 at 07:34 AM.
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02-03-2017, 07:39 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Mar 2011
Location: USA
Distribution: MINT Debian, Angstrom, SUSE, Ubuntu, Debian
Posts: 9,939
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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.
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02-03-2017, 03:15 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2007
Location: Wild West Wales, UK
Distribution: Linux Mint 22 MATE, Peppermint OS-Devuan, EndeavourOS
Posts: 4,293
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02-03-2017, 04:43 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Mar 2008
Posts: 22,293
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Some of those atoms have a goofy loader. A number of web pages tell how to get linux up using either 32 to 64 bit loader or reverse (I forget)
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02-03-2017, 05:46 PM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Somewhere inside 9.9 million sq. km. Canada
Distribution: Slackware 15.0, current, slackware-arm-currnet
Posts: 6,355
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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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