Re: New user having trouble with new install

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

Jonathan Levine wrote:
> On 7/10/15, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 11 July 2015 04:29:23 Jonathan Levine wrote:
> > > I've just completed the "small cd" internet install of the current
> > > distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the VIA EDEN ESP
> > > 6000.  I went with all the defaults and it seemed to complete
> > > uneventfully.  However, on boot it tanks with a "microcode: no
> > > support for this CPU vendor" error.
> >
> > Which CD did you use?  Yes, I know the net install CD, but which
> > architecture?
> >
> > Lisi
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.1.0/i386/iso-cd/debian-8.1.0-i386-netinst.iso
>
> Seems to me that the installer wouldn't run if I'd chosen the wrong
> architecture.

You might want to try a live-cd {https://www.debian.org/CD/live/}.
The netinst cd is a very minimal system. I can see it "running" 
when a "full" system might not. When I was looking for a distro I 
purchased live-cd's
[https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/] to determine compatibility 
with my hardware. [I was on dial-up so downloading was not 
feasible ;]