Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> writes: > Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> writes: > >> Rodolfo Medina composed on 2017-06-10 1+:50 (UTC+0100): >> . >>> ...as I described, Debian doesn't even manage to start up on that >>> machine... and that's my problem... I don't use Windows and so the >>> machine is there permanently unused, waiting and hoping for next Debian >>> releases to work in the next - not too far - future... >> . Give Knoppix a try. If any Debian can, if any Linux can, odds are >> extremely high that Knoppix can. If it can't, I'm sure Klaus would like to >> know the details: debian-knop...@lists.debian.org > > > Thanks for the suggestion: I downloaded Knoppix and burned it onto DVD > support, but unfortunately it seems no possible to boot the machine from DVD: > no such option in start up boot menu. > > I'll try now Debian live isos as kindly suggested by other listers.
...from USB stick. Rodolfo