On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 11:38:07PM +0200, hede wrote: > Am 29.09.2022 21:40, schrieb tomas@tuxteam.de: > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 08:13:56PM +0100, David wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > The software I want to run is provided by Ubiquity as an NVR for their > > > cameras, I have versions for Debian 7, 8 & 9. > > > > I think the warnings from both Andys and hede are a bit too one-sided, > > if well-meant. > > Where's my one-sided warning? It's quite the opposite, as I clearly stated > there are good reasons to do so. I take that back, then :) (now seriously: sorry for my sloppy reading) > > If you need to install an older Debian, that's what the archives are > > for [...] > Yes, archive.debian.org is your friend here. > I doubt you are doing anything useful with something like Debian 8 and 4 MB > of RAM, I bet it was way older. The smallest system I'd ever use with a > post-2000 Linux had 32 MB of RAM and used Linux 2.4 even after way newer > kernels were released, for reasons. It's a while ago, but ISTR it was Wheezy. > So good luck with your working root access now, David :-) Absolutely. Cheers -- t
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