Medion Akoya Mini E2076 D

Inside the box

Here is the box...

The Front (the two screws here must be removed)

The Back side (Both the two small screws and the two DVI mounting screws must be removed)

The buttom view (remove the two screws)

The Inside (the cover can be removed, by carefully using a small screw driver at the edge)

Get Linux into the box

Without destroying your Windows 7 - Yeah I know - but I did pay for it...

Steps to make the dual boot box

• Steps to make the dual boot box

  • Get an install drive - I used an USB DVD drive
  • Get a linux distribution - I used Linux Mint 8.0
  • Consider your harddisk layout
  • The box is installed with three primary partitions which blocks the disk for more partitions
    my choise was to delete the 'recover' partition
  • and resize the Windows partition to 100Gb
  • Create an extended partition containing a 2Gb swap partition and the rest for Linux Mint
  • I used Parted Magic for resizing the disk, but I believe that the Mint installer would have done the job
  • Now installation is straight forward - I chose to let Mint start in live mode and install from there...
  • All hardware was recognized by Mint except for the wireless USB dongle - I tried with a D-Link wireless USB and it connected imediatly to the network. The take away must be that there are no Linux sopport for the Pegatron wireless dongle

• Why I chose Mint?

  • Mint is right now my favorite distribution for PC's which have to be used by other than me, and if I don't hve a couple of days to play with multimedia codecs and inslalling restricted drivers

  • Pros

  • Hardware recognision
  • DVD movies just plays
  • Mp3 just plays
  • Java just works
  • Flash just works
  • Debian based installer

  • Cons

  • A little bit heavy for this hardware - Time from power-up to ready 75s - I will try a lighter distro later on :-)

  BIOS

  Entering the BIOS is pretty simple - When you are prompted to press [F8] for boot menu. Just press [Del] instead.

  In general I was pretty satisfied with the standard bios setup, with very good auto detection of both USB DVD drive and bootable USB dongles But if you want to place your Medion box where it is difficult to reach. On the back of a TV, monitor or under your table you need to change the power up behavior to make it possible to turn the PC on. This is fortunately easy done as shown at the picture below.

  Here is the Power setup menu...
  

  Have Fun;-)