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Russell L. Harris

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Nov 5, 2023, 1:30:06 AM11/5/23
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I need to install Debian on a old machine (1700 Mhz Celeron). I
copied the installer image to USB stick and the installation appeared
to go properly until I tried without success to find a Debian mirror
which hosts Debian 10.

RLH

Jeffrey Walton

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Nov 5, 2023, 1:20:06 AM11/5/23
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I _think_ you can use <archive.debian.org>, though I have never used
it for Debian. I have used similar repos for Fedora and Ubuntu.

Jeff

Marco

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Nov 5, 2023, 1:20:06 AM11/5/23
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Am 05.11.2023 04:51 schrieb Russell L. Harris:

> I need to install Debian on a old machine (1700 Mhz Celeron).

Debian 12 can be installed, why don't use that version?

> I copied the installer image to USB stick and the installation appeared
> to go properly until I tried without success to find a Debian mirror
> which hosts Debian 10.

Which mirror did you choose?
Can you reach it form a live system?
Do you use netinstall?
I also did and it didn't work many times, so consider DVD-1 and update
it after installation.

to...@tuxteam.de

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Nov 5, 2023, 1:50:05 AM11/5/23
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On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 06:32:10AM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 01:18:30AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > I _think_ you can use <archive.debian.org>, though I have never used
> > it for Debian. I have used similar repos for Fedora and Ubuntu.
>
> I was under the impression that Debian 12 would not work on older
> machines. Am I mistaken?
>
> I checked several archives which claimed to support older releases,
> but I am not sure whether I tried archive.debian.org.

Debian 10 aka Buster /should/ still be in the regular repo,
because it is LTS? It may well be that some mirrors don't
want to carry it, I don't know.

At least [1] seems alive.

Correct me if I am wrong.

Cheers

[1] https://packages.debian.org/buster/
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Jeffrey Walton

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Nov 5, 2023, 1:50:05 AM11/5/23
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On Sun, Nov 5, 2023 at 1:32 AM Russell L. Harris <rus...@rlharris.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 01:18:30AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> >I _think_ you can use <archive.debian.org>, though I have never used
> >it for Debian. I have used similar repos for Fedora and Ubuntu.
>
> I was under the impression that Debian 12 would not work on older
> machines. Am I mistaken?
>
> I checked several archives which claimed to support older releases,
> but I am not sure whether I tried archive.debian.org.

I'm confused... I _thought_ you wanted to install Debian 10/Buster,
and run tools like apt to install software.

It is not clear to me what Debian 12 and older machines have to do with things.

I should probably step out of this conversation. Sorry about that.

Jeff

Russell L. Harris

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Nov 5, 2023, 1:50:05 AM11/5/23
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On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 01:18:30AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>I _think_ you can use <archive.debian.org>, though I have never used
>it for Debian. I have used similar repos for Fedora and Ubuntu.

I was under the impression that Debian 12 would not work on older
machines. Am I mistaken?

I checked several archives which claimed to support older releases,
but I am not sure whether I tried archive.debian.org.

RLH

Marco M.

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Nov 5, 2023, 2:10:06 AM11/5/23
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Am 05.11.2023 um 06:32:10 Uhr schrieb Russell L. Harris:

> I was under the impression that Debian 12 would not work on older
> machines. Am I mistaken?

It requires a i686 cpu (Pentium Pro or newer) despite the i386 in the
packaging system due to compatibility reasons.
You Celeron 1.7 GHz will satisfy that.

Russell L. Harris

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Nov 5, 2023, 2:30:06 AM11/5/23
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I thank you for the clarification. All I need is, if possible, to get
Debian running on the machine. The later the release, the better.

My thanks to all of you.

RLH

Andrew M.A. Cater

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Nov 5, 2023, 8:00:07 AM11/5/23
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Hi Russell,

I have a local mirror here which includes 10. That is synched from the
country level mirror.

If the CDN isn't working for you, use http://ftp.XX.debian.org where XX
is your country so ftp.us.debian.org, for example.

All the very best, as ever,

Andy

[amac...@debian.org]

Russell L. Harris

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Nov 6, 2023, 3:30:06 AM11/6/23
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On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 08:36:43AM +0100, Marco M. wrote:
>Am 05.11.2023 um 07:30:51 Uhr schrieb Russell L. Harris:
>
>> This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU.
>> Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for you CPU.
>
>You need the i386 image for your CPU.
>Use that link to download it with BitTorrent:
>https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/bt-dvd/debian-12.2.0-i386-DVD-1.iso.torrent

Marco, I thank you for the link.

I never had used BitTorrent, but I found and installed "biglybt" and
soon had the iso image. I lost several hours messing around with
getting the iso image onto a USB stick. And about five minutes ago,
my old Celeron booted into Debian 12.

I plan to use the machine either for "pi-hole" or for my weather
station running "weewx".

Again, thanks.

RLH
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