Thanks, That is good to know. I'm currently carrying out a wee project with Davuan Jessie with my old P200mmx box(I did my first foray into Linux on it over 17 years ago) It's going to open the eyes of the Linux naysayers on n X86 forum I frequent. Should be fun .At that moment synaptic/apt say the downloads are not autenticated. they install just fine thoiugh. Is there any way to eliminate this warning? I'm currently downloading 15gigs of game related stuf that will run on the old gal fine.

Thanks in advance.

Mark

All sorted. Xeoma work wonderfully.

When the start up menu comes up just select the free version. It supports four cameras, so good for home use.

Hi guys and gals. It's been a while. Just to let you know I have a AMD K6-2 266 test rig with 300ish megs of ram set up for testing older kit-pci cards video/sound/usb/nics and Devuan Jessie runs fine on it so does Debian 8. I did a net install with both, which obviously took a while,  with no problems at all. I use it to test even older systems- XT class to 486 class systems with serial and ethernet. Works wonderfully. I have compared to some older commercial distros-Turbo Linux 6.0, Xandros 2 and 3. Corel Kinux 1.1.2. RedHat 7.3 and a few others. Also test them on a P16MMX set up with 256megs of ram which seemed more stable. There really isn't that much of a performance difference at all. if any, for which I was pleasantly surprised. Pluses complete hot swap of usb sticks, usb mouse/keyboard support and the ability to go wireless if needed.

Would it be possible to do the same with ascii? IE does ascii support P1 class cpus? If so what kernal?

Kind regards

Mark NZ

Edit- And yes I can use a web browser on the K6-2 rig. Epiphany works but I prefer NetSurf because it is lighter and works fine with my favorite sites.

The best thing you can do is backup any data/documents then do a fresh installation of whatever distro you want to install. It'll be far quicker than trying to recover a a borked install.

What I should have done is check my old CrunchBangs fstab. That would have cleared things up straight away. Oh well whats a couple of hours wasted searching the internet?

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=4c4cc56c-c494-45d9-9b8a-dc50b744671a /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=533f2dfa-112a-45bb-a536-655b15414da0 none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/sr0        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/fd0  /media/user/floppy     auto   user,defaults,noauto 

When the drive was mounted I tried "chmod 777" and "chown user /media/user/floppy" on the mount directory /media/user/floppy.

Cheers.

So far its picked up all the hardware on this system so am very pleased.

I've been using MATE now for a couple of hours and absolutely no hickups.

Got MATE set as default DE by running the following as root:

update-alternatives --config x-session-manager 

It listed all the DE/WMs. I then selected MATE and it placed a star next to it.