Looking better by the minute, installing a bunch of package.i686 anyway.
It's a mobile pentium 4 so really not bad for being obsolete since 2010
with no wifi or usable usb.
On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 1:21 PM Linus Sphinx <sphinxtar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Too big. Refuses to boot a dvd, swear I saw it write
one once. Trying a
Centos 7 i386 cdrom over the network install, found a repo still online.
On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 8:57 AM Linus Sphinx <sphinxtar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> This looks promising, bootable maybe even... giving it a try.
>
https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-iso/slackware-15.0-iso/
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 8:35 AM Gary <saclug(a)garymcglinn.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a really old Red Hat "Live" CD you can have. It should be 32
>> bit. But, I would think that there would be archives where you can get
>> what you want. For example
archive.fedoraproject.org goes all the way
>> back to Fedora 10 and has 32 and 64 bit iso images for v10 that will fit on
>> a CD. I would think it would be the same for other distros.
>>
>> But if you want a current release, you are probably out of luck.
>>
>> -Gary
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 01:44:27PM -0700, Linus Sphinx wrote:
>> > After an all night session of drunken research I've come to the
>> conclusion
>> > there are no 32 bit linux distros left that will fit on a CD-R and
>> actually
>> > install a desktop, hell DVD-R either. Was going to give my faithful old
>> > Dell i486 laptop to a neighbor kid to play with but I think it's dead
>> Jim.
>> > Suggestions?
>> > Those that are left seem to only boot from media and will not install
>> > anything to a hard disk.
>> > Must be a screen door blowing shut somewhere that could use it, pretty
>> > heavy.
>>
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