[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
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
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
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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
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