New FITPC 1 owner
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 7:35 pm
So I was out at my local second hand sales on the weekend when i spotted a little box that said "FitPC" on the front I managed to buy it for £4.00 !
figuring that its either dead and I've wasted nothing or its working and the guy had no idea what he had so i brought it home and plugged it in and straight away it booted to grub asking to boot either Ubuntu or Gentoo.
so now i'm the proud owner of an old FitPC 1.0 box, i wanted to ask a few questions (i also appreciate its an obsolete box).
- How do i go about getting it to boot via USB stick (if its possible).
-Can someone let me know the default logins for Ubuntu and Gentoo as i get the feeling these may have never been changed.
- If they have been changed whats the best way to go about resetting the root login passwords for either distro?
is there a specif download I need to reinstall the OS on this box? i.e. does FitPC maintain its own build of ubuntu / gentoo for the FitPC's or can i just re-down ubuntu from the main site and re-install? if so what version is it?
- Whats the latest version of Linux i can get away with running on this device?
- Could someone point me in the direction of downloads to the latest and last driver sets for this machine (windows and Linux if possible) inc any bios updates that were available for it.
which output is for headphones and is that a modem port on the back or just a custom RS232 connector?
thanks for any help you guys can provide.
figuring that its either dead and I've wasted nothing or its working and the guy had no idea what he had so i brought it home and plugged it in and straight away it booted to grub asking to boot either Ubuntu or Gentoo.
so now i'm the proud owner of an old FitPC 1.0 box, i wanted to ask a few questions (i also appreciate its an obsolete box).
- How do i go about getting it to boot via USB stick (if its possible).
-Can someone let me know the default logins for Ubuntu and Gentoo as i get the feeling these may have never been changed.
- If they have been changed whats the best way to go about resetting the root login passwords for either distro?
is there a specif download I need to reinstall the OS on this box? i.e. does FitPC maintain its own build of ubuntu / gentoo for the FitPC's or can i just re-down ubuntu from the main site and re-install? if so what version is it?
- Whats the latest version of Linux i can get away with running on this device?
- Could someone point me in the direction of downloads to the latest and last driver sets for this machine (windows and Linux if possible) inc any bios updates that were available for it.
which output is for headphones and is that a modem port on the back or just a custom RS232 connector?
thanks for any help you guys can provide.