Hi, On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 10:22:13AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 08/01/2024 07:41 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I have an elderly Sony laptop and a more ancient desktop with unknown > > motherboard happily running i386 Debian 9.0. As far as I can tell the > > BIOS of neither machine supports booting from a flash drive. Neither has > > functional CD/DVD drive. Both hard drives have copious free space. > > Both machines have 32bit only hardware.
Which part of the hardware is 32-bit only? You said the CPUs support 64-bit, and that's normally all that matters. > > and bootable from flash, it does not have adequate free space for an > > additional OS. > > No sane person messes with OPERABLE system unless ABSOLUTELY *REQUIRED*! Why are you asking about upgrading it if you don't want to mess with the currently-installed system? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
