Re: Old machine (bochs).
On 22 Aug 2002 at 12:42, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 06:13:01PM +0200, Robert Vazan wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to install Debian on very very old machine (bochs x86
> > emulator).
>
> Why emulator. Debian support almost all platform as native. powerPC,
> ARM, 68000, ...
I need Windows on that same machine and I don't want to kill off MBR
nor boot sectors. Killing off virtual machine doesn't cost me
anything. I need to try things out before writing to disk. I would
have hard discussion with admins if something goes wrong.
> > I see a lot of things I expect from operating system aren't done
> > (keeping safe distance between myself and hardware) while a lot of
> > things that belong to application domain are installed (lynx, some
> > mail system, python (compiles during installation!), perl, ...).
> > This of course bloats base system.
>
> You must have run dselect.
Then I'll try it without dselect.
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