On Sunday 12 June 2005 09:14, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some older BIOSes don't allow booting from CD-ROM, let alone netbooting or
It's easy to solve the problem of a BIOS that doesn't support booting from CD-ROM. You have a boot loader on a floppy disk that loads the kernel and initrd from CD. > I hope not if it can be avoided with a little bit of extra effort. As long > as the kernel supports it, we should try to allow people to install > Debian on it. For me, it's one of the attractions of Open Source. Supporting old kernels also takes time, not only from the people who maintain the kernels but from people who maintain applications that depend on kernel functionality. People who have really old hardware should ask at their local LUG if someone has any unused computers that they don't need. I've offered quite a few old computers for free to members of my LUG. Recently I offered a P3-800 machine with broken PSU and a Pentium 200 machine that was fully operational and found no-one who wanted them. It seems that at my LUG there's no-one who has lesser hardware. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
