On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 02:54:29AM +0200, aitor_czr wrote: > > Hi, > > On 10/17/2016 12:29 PM, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 08:58:28AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > >>>On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:05:54AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > >>>> >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. > >>>> > > >>>> >devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_i386_CD.iso
I installed devuan from one of the old alphas. I remember there was something I had to do with the ISO before I could boot it from a USB stick. I gather it needed some kind of prefix? The correspondence should be somewhere in the ancient history of this mailing list. But maye the modern ISO's no longer have this problem. -- hendrik > >>> > >>>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. > >That's unstable; for jessie the minimum requirement for i386 is 586. > > Yes..., but it really depends on the version of the kernel. > > 4.7.x uses i686 and i686-pae, and 3.16.x uses i586 and i686-pae > > The trouble might be also in the phisical address extension (PAE), if the > computer hasn't this feature. > > Cheers, > > Aitor. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
