On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:05:54AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I've introduced Devuan to a friend who is not (yet) an accomplished Linux > geek, but he's been learning very fast. He's not real well-off financially, > so his two computers are old i386 laptops donated by friends. Neither of > these machines has a workable CD or DVD drive (ie one is a netbook and thus > no built-in DVD drive, the other has a DVD burner but is broken). Of > course, both machines have USB2 ports and can boot off of these. > > In order to install, he downloaded file(s): > > devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_i386_CD.iso > > and > > devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_i386_NETINST.iso > > Installed to a usb stick as follows: > > dd if=devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_i386_CD.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M > sync > > But neither machine will boot either of these installed ISO files, even > after fiddling with BIOS parameters. However, at my suggestion he also
Hi Robert, which CPU is that old laptop you are trying to boot from? AFAIK Devuan/Debian is compiled for i686, which means it would require at least a Pentium Pro/Pentium III. My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
