Hello all, Yesterday I received an old desktop. I installed from floppy, it's a MSI K6 with very little ram in it. What happened is I could not get to change the boot sequence in the BIOS, which is stucked at "A,C,Cdrom". (It's an old Award revision from 1999).
As there was no choice I went to fetch 5 images at floppy images section. http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/images/floppy/ The install went ok. (after I realised I should not go to and fro to much, and let the installer ask for a question during too much of a lasting time). Now I see it's not bad at all as far as smooth use is concerned, (which is after I choose not to install full desktop and after reboot installed xorg-server-video-trident, xorg-fonts and the dependancies, added to openbox/obconf/openbox-themes, and sent a "startx" in the vc). I would have liked to add Lxde desktop environment, but alas it's not packaged. Then I went to Lxde desktop website: http:lxde.org and I looked for Debian packages, but it says along with the repository to add in sources.list, that it will not fit Debian under Lenny version. http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Debian "In order to use this repository, you should be using Debian testing (aka lenny) because the new LXDE packages provided by this repository have dependencies that can not be fulfilled by packages from Debian stable (aka etch). For example, etch ships a libc6 package that is too old for LXDE to work." I would consider upgrading from Etch to Lenny now, I would do that using a CD and putting an entry to Cdrom in the sources.list, but as I have tried that before in another machine of mine, very recently, and the system ended broken (thought I had respected all the advises given by the docs, minimal system, up to date before upgrading... ) My demand is a wish that the floppy image base be upgraded, and additionnally, that some floppy web page links would point to the exact CD iso image that can fit with the kernel/initrd/drivers version in the floppy images, because at this point also I didn't know where to get the right version for this 2.6.18-etch3, and I put a former CD 1 Etch that I have, in the tray. Thanks to all who will consider my demand. With my best greetings, J.M
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