On Wed 09 Feb 2011 at 16:40:41 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: > I'm trying to turn an old computer (10-year-old IBM NetVista desktop with a > 1.0 GHz processor and 256 MB of RAM) into a server. Thus, I've made sure to > only use the i386 versions of Debian. > > I'm having difficulty installing Debian Squeeze on it. I did once > successfully install Debian Lenny on this computer. The logical thing to do > is to install Debian Lenny instead. However, Debian Squeeze is now the > stable branch, and that makes Lenny (the previous stable branch) obsolete. > (Should I use Lenny anyway? I know that Ubuntu drops support for old > versions. Does Debian do that as well?)
Not being able to install Squeeze is puzzling even though you have taken a number of sensible approaches to try to make it happen. Failing a resolution of this problem I'd install Lenny and upgrade. This might be useful: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110209233617.GT32679@desktop
