-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/07/08 03:44, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 01:28:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 06/06/08 12:46, Fabio Guerinoni wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I have an old computer, that I have resucitate not long ago, running >>> potato (Debian 2.2). I wanted to load a module, for a USB interface >>> storage. Apparently, nothing comes with the original distribution.. >>> .. and the packages that are listed under a search on the site, >>> do not seem appropriate because they need the debian-installer which comes >>> in the later distributions. >> Potato is O-L-D ancient. If it's too underpowered for Etch, you >> might need to try Slackware, Gentoo or OpenBSD. > > Please do not post this way even if you are trying to be funny. We know > you know a lot about Debian but telling this to newbie accomplishes > nothing but causing bad feels. > > Technically, it will take as much extra works to use old underpowered > system no matter what distro he uses.
The usefulness of apt*/dpkg come at a price: they are memory pigs. He might not even be able to install Etch. > He may be able to dance through chroot and NFS copy to upgrade system > without installer with Debian. What a pain. > Those distro which requires recompile > such as Gentoo may require much more work... There are binary versions of Gentoo. > Let's make this list to help people. I've used nothing but Debian since the late-Potato days. But I recognize it's limitations as well as it's strengths. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFISrWoS9HxQb37XmcRAgmRAKCMXxA86+YAdc4xaNk1kaDwYvwgMgCgtIiM rcrqqBXyJZUJN78fIAbOkz8= =5a4/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
