Re: Difficulty installing Debian 6.0.0 on an old computer
On Wed 09 Feb 2011 at 16:40:41 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote:
> I'm trying to turn an old computer (10-year-old IBM NetVista desktop with a
> 1.0 GHz processor and 256 MB of RAM) into a server. Thus, I've made sure to
> only use the i386 versions of Debian.
>
> I'm having difficulty installing Debian Squeeze on it. I did once
> successfully install Debian Lenny on this computer. The logical thing to do
> is to install Debian Lenny instead. However, Debian Squeeze is now the
> stable branch, and that makes Lenny (the previous stable branch) obsolete.
> (Should I use Lenny anyway? I know that Ubuntu drops support for old
> versions. Does Debian do that as well?)
Not being able to install Squeeze is puzzling even though you have taken
a number of sensible approaches to try to make it happen. Failing a
resolution of this problem I'd install Lenny and upgrade. This might be
useful:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/
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