Re: old machine wheezy vs apt

2012-04-16 Thread Aleksandar Kostadinov
To anybody interested, debian wheezy can't run on 64MB RAM on i386. Or actually it can run but package management is unusable so all debian benefits are actually lost. I tried pulling the .deb files on another machine, then transfer to the old machine. But dpkg is killed on 95% reading database (I

Re: can we boot winxp iso image from grub2 ?

2012-04-16 Thread Aleksandar Kostadinov
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:39 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: > On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:27:07 +0300 > Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > > [.] > >> Start freedos and run the windows >> installer off it... not sure what exactly your use case is though. > > [...] > > I us

Re: can we boot winxp iso image from grub2 ?

2012-04-16 Thread Aleksandar Kostadinov
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:09 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: > > Dear list, > > Is it possible to boot winxp installer iso from grub2 ? > Any clue is very much appreciated. I think the problem is not booting from the ISO but the loader from ISO to find itself. Here is an article about booting an ISO [1]. Bu

Re: old machine wheezy vs apt

2012-04-16 Thread Aleksandar Kostadinov
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 09:17:11AM +0300, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: >> Hello, >> >> trying to make a print server from an old pentium 100 64M RAM. I had >> to take that route because the USB<->paral

old machine wheezy vs apt

2012-04-15 Thread Aleksandar Kostadinov
Hello, trying to make a print server from an old pentium 100 64M RAM. I had to take that route because the USB<->parallel cables I've got don't work. Anyways, first tried to install debian stable but it crashes on boot. Something with the IDE controllers. btw I think there are some nasty bugs with