On 02/06/15 01:56, Jose Martinez wrote:
The question is, will jessie install and run on these old systems? If
not, can I still get a debian distro that will? I expect that the
processors on at least one of them will be at least i386 or better, so I
also expect that jessie will install and run, but that my main problem
will be with drivers for the legacy peripherals.
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en says:
"However, Debian GNU/Linux jessie will not run on 486 or earlier
processors. Despite the architecture name "i386", support for actual
80386 and 80486 processors (and their clones) was dropped with the
Sarge (r3.1) and Squeeze (r6.0) releases of Debian, respectively. The
Intel Pentium and clones, including those without an FPU
(Floating-Point Unit or math coprocessor), are supported. The Intel
Quark is not supported, due to hardware errata. "