Post AFiJGC3DWUDFIZPFtA by rmsilva@mamot.fr
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(DIR) Post #AFi3JCiBvKuCwyz9gO by elb@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-01-22T20:28:37Z
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I haven't burned a CD in so long that I couldn't remember the name of the utility to burn CDs.Now I'm burning a Debian 11 i386 disc for installation on a dual PII.#retrocomputing #debian
(DIR) Post #AFi7p4VkLhCobEcELY by elb@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-01-22T21:19:12Z
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So it turns out that the Debian i386 netinst installer requires > 256 MB of RAM to install. THE NETINST ISO. With 256 MB of RAM the graphical installer crashes with a cryptic message about "unable to copy", the non-graphical installer shows an error that it needs more RAM to continue, and the expert installer hangs silently.a) How did we arrive at this dystopian juncture?b) It's been a long time since I installed Debian fresh, the installer is actually really nice.c) WHY?????
(DIR) Post #AFiB2FZGqoaIWEEuoK by elb@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-01-22T21:55:13Z
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The netinst installer doesn't ask all of its questions up front, though, which is annoying. It stopped after half an hour or so to ask me what debian mirror I wanted to use, then again ten or so minutes later to ask about popularity-contest.
(DIR) Post #AFiC1ZgqeRjAaj1eTI by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-01-22T22:06:17Z
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@elb Sheeesh!For my curiosity, though, what was your reason for using Debian i386 as opposed to, say, Slackware?
(DIR) Post #AFiDBDiBK09XHBoRFo by elb@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-01-22T22:19:14Z
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@publius This is a utility workstation install, and my "regular" distro of choice is Debian. I have built up a media transfer box that has a removable IDE HDD tray, Zip drive, 3.5" and 5.25" floppies, 50- and 68-pin external SCSI (with enclosures), CD-ROM, etc., and this Debian installation is for imaging and writing disks. (It also has BeOS 4.5 for handling Mac disks, and FreeDOS for ImageDisk.)I have Slack on a Pentium 166 MMX for "retrocomputing" flavor, of course.It could've been Slack.
(DIR) Post #AFiIS64vSE34IQJlKa by peron@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-01-22T23:18:19Z
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@elb Bad RAM? It happens...! 😩
(DIR) Post #AFiJGC3DWUDFIZPFtA by rmsilva@mamot.fr
2022-01-22T23:27:21Z
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@elb reminds me of my history with NSLU2 devices, at some point the Debian installer would no longer run on its 32MB of RAM and you had to download a tar ball of the base system: https://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/install/
(DIR) Post #AFj6gFDzF1GsQOUmlE by coq@framapiaf.org
2022-01-23T08:41:07Z
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@elb🤕