On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 17:44 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 01:28:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 06/06/08 12:46, Fabio Guerinoni wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have an old computer, that I have resucitate not long ago, running > > > potato (Debian 2.2). I wanted to load a module, for a USB interface > > > storage. Apparently, nothing comes with the original distribution.. > > > .. and the packages that are listed under a search on the site, > > > do not seem appropriate because they need the debian-installer which comes > > > in the later distributions. > > > > Potato is O-L-D ancient. If it's too underpowered for Etch, you > > might need to try Slackware, Gentoo or OpenBSD. > > Please do not post this way even if you are trying to be funny. We know > you know a lot about Debian but telling this to newbie accomplishes > nothing but causing bad feels. > > Technically, it will take as much extra works to use old underpowered > system no matter what distro he uses. > > He may be able to dance through chroot and NFS copy to upgrade system > without installer with Debian. Those distro which requires recompile > such as Gentoo may require much more work... > > Let's make this list to help people. It might just be me, but Ron's advise sounds reasonable and not at all mean spirited. In fact it is very similar to your advise. Feeling a little touchy? -- Damon L. Chesser damon@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser
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