On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:48:36AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:38:00AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > It failed to boot an IBM Aptiva 2161-C8E desktop with a 1/19/1997 > > BIOS. This 166Mhz Pentium box has been my trusty machine for 5 years, > > and boots the potato r3 CD and also another woody netinst ISO (the one > > Well, I guess the question is do we want to support new machines or old > machines; it doesn't seem that we can do both. (I'd vote for the former > because we need to move forward, and it's not like we're removing the > floppy boot option.) Also, PGI currently uses syslinux and will continue to do past its 1.0 release. PGI works on i386, of course, and may be a good candidate for legacy hardware support when the official Debian installer can't bend over backwards that far anymore. (PGI does not, however, support floppy-disk-based installs.) There's more information about PGI at <http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/>. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's "magic" is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | engineering. "Supernatural" is a branden@debian.org | null word. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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