On Mon, 5 May 2025, Rafa? Lichwa?a wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to install Debian on a VERY VERY OLD hardware? If so, what
"image" should I use?
Hardware spec:
CPU: Intel Celeron 400MHz
RAM: 32MB
HDD: 6GB
BIOS year: 1998
CD-ROM, FDD 1,4MB, RS-232, 1x USB 2.0
The ram is going to be your biggest issue.
Potato will definitely work, and can boot from floppy if you can find
one.
The system may or may not boot from cdrom, not all bios did this well or
at all. Hard disk is surprisingly big.
I just tried to boot a jessie xen guest I had lying around with 32M ram
and it couldn't decompress the initrd.
Not to say that it can't work though...
