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.
Both machines have internet access.
Though this machine is 64Bit capable
I.E. has a 64bit processor capable of running 32bit software.
It currently runs i386 Debian 9.13 .
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*!
I date from era of 12AX7s and routine IO devices were 026s and KSR35s.
Have been using Debian since Squeeze.
At 80+ I've learned to ask first when in doubt ;}!
Are there documented install instructions covering machines described in
first paragraph?
TIA
