Re: Live 5.0.0 i386 is maybe not i386

2009-03-15 Thread Richard Atterer
[CCd to -release - is the release manual up to date?] Hi Gary, On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:29:46PM -0400, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: I just downloaded http://debian.yorku.ca/debian-cd/5.0.0-live/i386/iso-cd/ and tried an install on a 1998-vintage Compaq Presario 1210; the Live boot fails on

Re: Live 5.0.0 i386 is maybe not i386

2009-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 15 March 2009, Richard Atterer wrote: Even if this had not been done, installation might still have failed on that machine because the Debian installer needs quite a bit of RAM. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s05.html.en claims 44 MB, but again I think the figure is

Re: Live 5.0.0 i386 is maybe not i386

2009-03-15 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:37:09AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: But the *live CD* is NOT Debian Installer!!! Oh, of course, thanks for clarifying! How could I miss that in the original post... %-/ Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: 888354F7 | \/¯|

Re: Live 5.0.0 i386 is maybe not i386

2009-03-15 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
Richard Frans, thanks for the info -- yes, it is pretty old hardware, but the Internet does record success with it using Debian, only I expect that means I will need to find a comparable vintage debian ;) I've been going down the list of old-hardware distros at distrowatch, 6 so far, 5 have