<html><body style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div> Hi</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm not sure how I got these emails but</div><div><br /></div><div>For fun I did a 32 bit netinstall of Debian 11 on an old IBM Thinkpad from 2006 a little while ago.</div><div><br /></div><div>I booted the install from a USB stick.</div><div><br /></div><div>Using the Mate desktop everything worked as far as I could tell. It's sllooow and Firefox trips over it's feet and takes time to recover on those Javascript or whatever loaded supermarket catalogue pages.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's a Pentium M with 1.5 Gig RAM.</div><div><br /></div><div>Chris B<br /></div><br /><br /><blockquote><br />----- Original Message -----<br /><div style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> taslug@lists.linux.org.au</div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div><taslug@lists.linux.org.au><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Tue, 08 Mar 2022 12:26:45 +1000<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>Re: [TasLUG] Linux distros<br /><br /><br />
Hi Peter<br /><br />
Could you give some more information n what you've tried/what doesn't<br />
happen?<br /><br />
Some computers aren't set up to boot from a CD by default - often<br />
there's a shortcut key that can be pressed while the computer is still<br />
powering on that displays a boot menu or configration screen where boot<br />
order can be set. Could that be the hurdle?<br /><br />
If you put the CD in the drive while in Windows, do the files show<br />
correctly? Sometimes it's easy to accidentally copy the ISO file itself<br />
to a CD instead of writing the ISO file's contents.<br /><br />
Cheese<br /><br />
On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 13:07 +1100, Peter Barnes wrote:<br />
> Hi Everyone,<br />
> <br />
> I use to come along to TASLUG meetings way way back. Cannot remember<br />
> the exact year but I do remember some of the people who use to be<br />
> there like Leah Duncan and Cheeseness. Anyway at the time I use to<br />
> dabble in Linux and use to purchase disks from the US and also when<br />
> it was opensource freedom day in Tassie where there was a nice<br />
> selection of disks to choose from.<br />
> <br />
> I currently use WIN10 as the Linux disks I have are too old to use<br />
> now. I downloaded Debian 11.2.0 i386 and even managed to iso burn to<br />
> a CD. When I try to use it in a PC nothing happens. I chose Debian<br />
> because it doesn't need much RAM and is available for a 32bit PC. For<br />
> me I only use thunderbird and Firefox in the immediate so that suits<br />
> me fine. Anyone know where I went wrong? I use my phone as a modem<br />
> for my PC.<br />
> <br />
> Cheers<br />
> <br />
> Peter<br />
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