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The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option (2022)
very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option In this installment: some strange things I discovered when purchasing a FreeDOS laptop from Hewlett Packard. I suspect that the audience for this will be somewhat limited but I had fun exploring this.
As the eagle eyes of you might have noticed the “HP Documentation” link appears to start some kind of PDF reader. We boot Debian more-or-less like normal, disabling all hardware accelerated video outputs and switching to the VESA driver. If it can’t locate this it mounts whatever happens to be/dev/sda1 on/hpdocs Start a service called “Webconverger”, this is apparently an old style “turn Debian into a web kiosk” project.
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