Re: USB for potato
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On 06/07/08 03:44, 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.
The usefulness of apt*/dpkg come at a price: they are memory pigs.
He might not even be able to install Etch.
> He may be able to dance through chroot and NFS copy to upgrade system
> without installer with Debian.
What a pain.
> Those distro which requires recompile
> such as Gentoo may require much more work...
There are binary versions of Gentoo.
> Let's make this list to help people.
I've used nothing but Debian since the late-Potato days. But I
recognize it's limitations as well as it's strengths.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New
York is doomed."
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQFISrWoS9HxQb37XmcRAgmRAKCMXxA86+YAdc4xaNk1kaDwYvwgMgCgtIiM
rcrqqBXyJZUJN78fIAbOkz8=
=5a4/
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: