On Mon, 5 May 2025, Rafa? Lichwa?a wrote:
Hi,Is it possible to install Debian on a VERY VERY OLD hardware? If so, what "image" should I use?Hardware spec: CPU: Intel Celeron 400MHz RAM: 32MB HDD: 6GB BIOS year: 1998 CD-ROM, FDD 1,4MB, RS-232, 1x USB 2.0
The ram is going to be your biggest issue.Potato will definitely work, and can boot from floppy if you can find one.
The system may or may not boot from cdrom, not all bios did this well or at all. Hard disk is surprisingly big.
I just tried to boot a jessie xen guest I had lying around with 32M ram and it couldn't decompress the initrd.
Not to say that it can't work though...