Using an emulator is a good idea, I will try that if installing MX fluxbox fails. I came to the conclusion that the USB stick I had been using yesterday for my debian attempts was faulty,I am using a new one now.
BUT when I said that the laptop had 3gb I was wrong, that's my second-oldest laptop (from 2008). The 32-bit one has... 512mb! But I ran linux on it happily for several years. It is certainly taking a long time to do anything now. The first computer I installed and ran linux on, in the 1990s, had only 16mb. John On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 at 12:19, Georgi Guninski <ggunin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > something does not work on a 32-bit machine, I thought I could resurrect > the ancient one for that purpose -- and that purpose only! > > You may try to run 32 bit guest on x86_64 host virtual machine, > probably using qemu/kvm. > > I am not sure which virtual machines give good performance in your case. > > Most x86_64 native linux include |qemu-system-i386| as a standard package. > > So on a decent 64 bit host you may try: > > qemu-system-i386 -m 4096 -drive=32bit_drive_file > > If this works, you will benefit from the good CPU of the host. > > There are frontends to qemu, but you will find the right options on > the man page or on a web search. > > There are paranoid solutions to increase security using virtual > machines, e.g. Qubes OS. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/pQw-LawYZPA/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAGUWgD-gBui_wD%2BMyKi2r%2BtPu%2BBNzg2WQ97ofq00VZNEvnuNqQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAD0p0K6h6TSHEOV78r_TcxvL%2BjG3a%2BXdgyPpvUd3iWPQ%3Dzgk4g%40mail.gmail.com.
