Hi folks,
Thanks for your answers. Trisquel 7 is now running on the old beast :)
**mason**, you gave the key, thanks! The v7 ISO did fit on my 2GB pendrive,
and installation did indeed work out via the text installer, after some
wrangling. It's running fairly smoothly (on 256MB RAM). The wireless dongle
was not recognized, but I installed the necessary Atheros drivers over the
LAN cable. Synaptic and the "Add/Remove applications" program keep hanging,
but apt-get works fine. And ClamAV seems to get installed preconfigured
(unlike in Librepup). I can't get the database updated yet, but that's for a
new topic.
> Trisquel Mini doesn't have a text installer?
It doesn't seem to. A bit odd and unfortunate.
some more thoughts, perhaps also addressed at the **Trisquel maintainers**:
1) Surprisingly with the 1.5GB ISO I could in fact install the Mini setup as
a software choice option. Nice!, but it would be nicer still if this were
mentioned somewhere. I didn't try the 'big' ISO at first because I figured it
would necessarily install the 'big' window manager and other software, and
that the laptop was unlikely to run that.
2) Another surprise: using the text installer from the big ISO still
requires an Internet connection to download some files. (Or does it?) Not a
problem in my case, but you'd hope everything would be on the ISO, no? [BTW,
this phase looked similar/identical to that of the Netinstall version which
did not work for me, as described in the first post. If it's the same, I'm
not sure why it did work now.]
3) I had to redo the install. The first time Grub couldn't be installed to
the automatically chosen /dev/sda; then in order to figure out why, I went
back to the 'disk overview' (paraphrasing) step and some other steps and
after nosing around a bit (while not making any changes) the bootloader
install wouldn't work at all any more and the install couldn't be finished.
Arguably I should have realized the pendrive was on /dev/sda and the hard
disk on /dev/sdb, and corrected the default. Still, an easy mistake to make?,
and a hassle to do it all over.
But perhaps these do not apply to v8.
4) Maybe there could be a direct link to the v7 images on the Downloads
page?
To **CalmStorm**: yes, it looks like Librepup is no longer maintained. I
figured it would be in working order though since it uses Trisquel's repos
(?). It is very nice and snappy, but it does not seem to be a stable solution
in my case because of the aforementioned issues.
pax vobiscum
