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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Issues with USB mouse in 9atom
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 14:58:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <64b0f6ac0d6c68bceaf15dcb026aca05@lilly.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+VQh+xpQJE9dmYpqY8Wzcb6+YQXnaFOfBEfY=+UKs3_g9NoHg@mail.gmail.com>

> Yeah, I installed from the CD. But that image is for amd64, correct? a 64
> bit processor? My junk computer is an old gateway, with a celeron D, a
> whopping 256 MB of ram, and a full 100 GB hard disk space. But since this
> is 32 bit to my knowledge, would a possible solution involve making a
> bootable flash disk from this distribution within my installation?
>
> > i don't see any confirmation, but it looks like the install was from the
> > cd image?
> > if so, i recommend using the usb install image instead
> >
> >         http://ftp.9atom.org/other/usbinstamd64.bz2
> >
> > this *should* fix all those issues.  posting a few details on the
> > processor might
> > be helpful in figuring out any issues.

either 32 or 64 bit kernels can be built from the usb image.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-22 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-22 20:38 Roswell Grey
2015-09-22 21:58 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2015-09-23  0:44   ` erik quanstrom
2015-09-23  2:23     ` erik quanstrom
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-09-21 22:38 Roswell Grey
2015-09-22  0:04 ` erik quanstrom
2015-09-22 11:21 ` cinap_lenrek

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