On Friday 28 March 2003 23:24, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:11:09AM +0000, Paul Grenyer wrote: > > Anyway, can someone tell me if I can install Debian on my Acron A5000, > > please? > > Only if you can answer me this: > > Does your current OS install on my Yoyodyne 75/20A4500 Mark II? 8:o) > > You're probably wondering what the heck I'm talking about and > questinging Yoyodyne's existance right now. Well, you confused us > similarly. If you give us more specific information, we should be > able to tell you. > > For example, my computer is... > > AMD Athalon XP 2100+ > 100GB Western Digital Caviar WD1000BB hard drive > 20GB Western Digital Caviar WD200EB hard drive > 629MB RAM > Generic ATAPI DVD-ROM > Teac CD-W512EB CDRW burner > D-Link DFE-538TX ethernet adapter > SoundBlaster Live! > Soyo KT-333 Dragon Lite motherboard > > This kind of information should be enough for most hardware people to > give you a ballpark figure on whether or not things will work. Be > prepared to break the motherboard description down to chipsets if it's > an obscure one that nobody here has heard of or tried. > > I hope this is enough to get you started.
In this particular case, that doesn't really apply. An Acorn (note the spelling) A5000 is a very specific machine which uses an ARM (Acorn RISC Machine) CPU and comes with a slightly Mac-like GUI (KDE has a theme based on its look & feel) and an operating system called RiscOS. It's no sort of x86 clone. Generally, all A5000's are virtually identical, about the only changes made to them may have been that the hard drives may have been replaced by bigger ones. They're about the age of 386's but tend to be even more rock-solid reliable than Linuxboxes. So if Debian has been ported to run on one A5000 it will run on 'em all, hard drive space permitting, and 'A5000' is an adequate description. However, RiscOS code is extremely compact, and whether Linux can do anything useful in 4MB of RAM I'm not sure. This is quite unlike the mix-n-match situation with regard to x86's. cr ... contemplating my old A5000 running alongside the collection of random parts that is my Linux box -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
