On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:36:34 +0200, Adam wrote in message
<20161017083634.GA8216@???>:

> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 08:58:28AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:05:54AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
> > > I've introduced Devuan to a friend who is not (yet) an
> > > accomplished Linux geek, but he's been learning very fast. He's
> > > not real well-off financially, so his two computers are old i386
> > > laptops donated by friends.
> > >
> > > devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_i386_CD.iso
> >
> > which CPU is that old laptop you are trying to boot from? AFAIK
> > Devuan/Debian is compiled for i686, which means it would require at
> > least a Pentium Pro/Pentium III.
>
> That's unstable; for jessie the minimum requirement for i386 is 586.

..if _all_ else fails, try https://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/
on a 3.5", 5.25" etc diskette or on the boot drive and follow the
recipe in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SmartBootManager

..might even boot 8086 boxes, but I doubt it works on EFI boxes.

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..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.