On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, at 3:48 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:42:41AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:42:37 +0200
> > Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > That is, if you and other list subscribers care about continued i386
> > > support you should probably look into contributing.
> >
> > And how does one do that?
> >
> > --
> > Does anybody read signatures any more?
> >
> > https://charlescurley.com
> > https://charlescurley.com/blog/
>
> If you have "real" 686 32 bit hardware that you can press into service that
> isn't being used: pick up a Debian i386 disk and try reinstalling Debian.
>
> If you have "real" 686 32 bit hardware - get a copy of a Debian live CD and
> boot it - you may face probelms if there isn't a lot of memory.
Well, as it happens I just did that! But I didn't have any problems...
Details:
I recently was given an old IBM ThinkPad T60 1953 with an Intel Core Duo
(Yonah) 32-bit processor. Vintage c 2006. Output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo" is
attached.
First I tried booting the Debian 10.7.0 (Buster) amd64 Live DVD. It said I
didn't have the right kind of processor, and I should try the i386 version. So
I did. It booted fine and ran a couple of simple commands without incident.
Then I rebooted and ran the installer from the same DVD. Again, no problem
installing a system without GUI. I then ran tasksel and used it to install the
Cinnamon desktop, which is working great.
I'll file an installation report soon. After that, I guess I'll try installing
Bullseye and file a report on it.
Does anybody know if there's an i386 Live DVD for Bullseye?
Thanks for all your work!
Rick
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 14
model name : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz
stepping : 8
microcode : 0x39
cpu MHz : 997.463
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fdiv_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon
bts cpuid aperfmperf pni monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr pdcm dtherm
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 l1tf mds swapgs
itlb_multihit
bogomips : 3657.32
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 14
model name : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz
stepping : 8
microcode : 0x39
cpu MHz : 997.453
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fdiv_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon
bts cpuid aperfmperf pni monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr pdcm dtherm
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 l1tf mds swapgs
itlb_multihit
bogomips : 3657.32
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management:
