Re: SOLVED Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-22 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
> > On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:50:32 -0400, Stefan Monnier posted: > > > FWIW, I find that running Lenny on a 64MB machine is bearable but slowish, > > > and Etch was already "too slow" on a 32MB machine. So make sure you have > > > enough RAM. > > > For very simple uses, it works with less RAM, but

Re: SOLVED Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 05:11:43AM -0700, Thorny wrote: > On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:50:32 -0400, Stefan Monnier posted: > > >> Discussing this has inspired me to put another line on my hobby list, I > >> will eventually drag out an old P1 100MHz I have and try loading Lenny > >> on it. Or, maybe I sh

Re: SOLVED Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-22 Thread Thorny
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:50:32 -0400, Stefan Monnier posted: >> Discussing this has inspired me to put another line on my hobby list, I >> will eventually drag out an old P1 100MHz I have and try loading Lenny >> on it. Or, maybe I shouldn't thank you for that, it's not like I don't >> already have

Re: SOLVED Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Discussing this has inspired me to put another line on my hobby list, I > will eventually drag out an old P1 100MHz I have and try loading Lenny on > it. Or, maybe I shouldn't thank you for that, it's not like I don't > already have enough projects. FWIW, I find that running Lenny on a 64MB mac

Re: SOLVED Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-21 Thread Thorny
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:30:07 -0600, Robert Hodgins posted: > On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 14:13 -0600, Robert Hodgins wrote: >> Thank you to everyone who has offered suggestions. I'll keep fiddling >> around with this computer. If something works, I'll let you know. >> >> > Turns out the problem was li

Re: SOLVED Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-20 Thread prad
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:40:05 +0100 Robert Hodgins wrote: > Turns out the problem was likely hardware related. > ok this is good to know since we have several older machines we want to install debian on. does it ever make sense to install older versions on older machines? or is it better to just

SOLVED Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-17 Thread Robert Hodgins
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 14:13 -0600, Robert Hodgins wrote: > Thank you to everyone who has offered suggestions. I'll keep fiddling > around with this computer. If something works, I'll let you know. > > Turns out the problem was likely hardware related. Over the weekend, I had noticed that SBM wasn