Re: "Lenny's" twist of fate
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 08:59:00PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:14:17AM -0500, philipgeiger wrote:
...
> > I'm presently trying to install "Lenny" on my dinosaur computer. It's an
> > amd 500 with 512 mb ram and a wd 160gb hard drive. After installing I
> > noticed that my serial mouse doesn't work and the initial screen doesn't
> > have any underscores to access by hot keys and tabbing as a plan b.
>
> These are minor glitches. I would be happy to get to here. Your
> complaints are minor glitches. They are not like "SEGMENTATION ERROR"
> which is hard to fix. You seem to got WORKING SYSTEM already :-)
>
> > I'm trying to install over my previous installation still without the
> > mouse support.
...
I think I overlooked exact RAM number but guessed situation from "mouse"
assuming serial mouse or some old graphics card mouse. Excuse me, you
got new enough system.
> Since your platform looks to have small DRAM memory which prevents
> modern installer to be used, I suggest you to use old distribution on
> CD if you have CD ROM drive on your system.
This is bogus assumption.
> If you have access to newer PC, try to learn GNU/Linux using live CD.
> There are Debian live CD but Ubuntu ones are also good.
> http://wiki.debian.org/LiveCD
> http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download
Anyway, this is one way.
> I also recommend you to learn basics from http://www.debian.org/doc/
>
> Please note old Debian distribution has been moved to
> http://archive.debian.org/debian/
>
> See this backgrounds at http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive
>
> Osamu
> PS: See http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#quick-reference
Also reaing BTS as others suggested is good idea.
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