On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 12:22 +0100, Andreas Glaeser wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:33:26 +0200
> Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 09:24:27 +0200, Andreas Glaeser wrote:
> > 
> > > This installation went quite fine, but I had the
> > > debian-desktop-environment installed on this box and wondered in the
> > > end, that it was Gnome3, not XFCE. I thought XFCE was the default now
> > > for CD-installations and a single-CD-image was used for this (while
> > 
> > Nope...
> > 
> > > using a network-mirror). Gnome3 began starting up, but with only 256
> > > MB of RAM, this would have been an endless swap-orgy, so Gnome was
> > > removed again with tasksel and task-xfce-desktop and task-lxde-desktop
> > > chosen instead. As with the IGEL-thinclient before, I built a special
> > > kernel-image for this box, because *-686-pae would produce a
> > 
> > Why?  The 486 kernel image should work just fine.  Which one did d-i
> > install?
> > 
> > > reboot-loop instead of starting up and lower latency-times are
> > > appreciated.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Julien
> 
> d-i installed the -486 kernel and you are right, it works just fine. I use the
> -3.2-486-bpo kernel now on this box with the otherwise stable release. It 
> really is OK,
> although -686 would be even nicer maybe ? Wikipedia says, TM-Crusoe is a 
> 586-CPU, so
> possibly -686 would not work at all,
[...]

Aside from the fact that it wouldn't work, it doesn't exist any more in
'wheezy':
http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/upcoming-changes-in-debian-linux-packages-for-i386.html

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong.

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