Re: CLARIFICATIONS Re: Installing current i386 Debian on OLD syst W/O CD/DVD drive
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 10:22:13AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 08/01/2024 07:41 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I have an elderly Sony laptop and a more ancient desktop with unknown
> > motherboard happily running i386 Debian 9.0. As far as I can tell the
> > BIOS of neither machine supports booting from a flash drive. Neither has
> > functional CD/DVD drive. Both hard drives have copious free space.
>
> Both machines have 32bit only hardware.
Which part of the hardware is 32-bit only? You said the CPUs support
64-bit, and that's normally all that matters.
> > and bootable from flash, it does not have adequate free space for an additional OS.
>
> No sane person messes with OPERABLE system unless ABSOLUTELY *REQUIRED*!
Why are you asking about upgrading it if you don't want to mess with
the currently-installed system?
Thanks,
Andy
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