Re: Difficulty installing Debian 6.0.0 on an old computer

2011-02-11 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:29:44 + Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Wed 09 Feb 2011 at 18:13:54 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: Thanks, Brian, I'll try installing Lenny and then upgrading. If I still have trouble with Squeeze, then I'll have to stick with Lenny until I buy a somewhat newer

Difficulty installing Debian 6.0.0 on an old computer

2011-02-09 Thread Jason Hsu
I'm trying to turn an old computer (10-year-old IBM NetVista desktop with a 1.0 GHz processor and 256 MB of RAM) into a server. Thus, I've made sure to only use the i386 versions of Debian. I'm having difficulty installing Debian Squeeze on it. I did once successfully install Debian Lenny on

Re: Difficulty installing Debian 6.0.0 on an old computer

2011-02-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Feb 2011 at 16:40:41 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: I'm trying to turn an old computer (10-year-old IBM NetVista desktop with a 1.0 GHz processor and 256 MB of RAM) into a server. Thus, I've made sure to only use the i386 versions of Debian. I'm having difficulty installing Debian

Re: Difficulty installing Debian 6.0.0 on an old computer

2011-02-09 Thread Jason Hsu
Thanks, Brian, I'll try installing Lenny and then upgrading. If I still have trouble with Squeeze, then I'll have to stick with Lenny until I buy a somewhat newer computer that doesn't have problems with the Debian Squeeze CD. On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 23:36:17 + Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:

Re: Difficulty installing Debian 6.0.0 on an old computer

2011-02-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Feb 2011 at 18:13:54 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: Thanks, Brian, I'll try installing Lenny and then upgrading. If I still have trouble with Squeeze, then I'll have to stick with Lenny until I buy a somewhat newer computer that doesn't have problems with the Debian Squeeze CD. As it