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Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

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Andrew M.A. Cater writes:

> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:42:41AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:42:37 +0200
> > Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > That is, if you and other list subscribers care about continued i386
> > > support you should probably look into contributing.
> >
> > And how does one do that?

[...]

> If you have "real" 686 32 bit hardware that you can press into service that
> isn't being used: pick up a Debian i386 disk and try reinstalling Debian.
>
> If you have "real" 686 32 bit hardware - get a copy of a Debian live CD and
> boot it - you may face probelms if there isn't a lot of memory.

[...]

Which version of Debian should be tested in such cases -- testing or stable?  
Any specific image files that I should use -- I'd head for the most recent  
official netinst image if not :) ?

I have a few i386 systems (which will not boot amd64) here and could do a  
few installs and live CD tests. Is there anything of interest to report  
apart from obvious "problems" and "successes"?

Does it make sense to test different "boot paths"? I normally burn actual  
CDs for the installation because that's what all (?) of my i386 systems  
support booting from, but some of them may do USB-pendrive based  
installations if triggered from an existent GRUB 2 prompt, too.

I have got seven i386 (non-amd64-capable) machines in total, all of which  
are known to work with "Debian 10 stable" although not freshly installed but  
upgraded from earlier releases. At least two of them can be easily used  
for testng and one of the others has very low RAM (will not run live systems  
that is...).

HTH
Linux-Fan

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FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support  for 3 years? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-15 10:10 +0100
  Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-12-15 11:50 +0100
    Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term  support for 3 years? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-15 12:50 +0100
      Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-12-15 14:50 +0100
        Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term  support for 3 years? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-15 17:30 +0100
        Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support  for 3 years? David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-16 01:00 +0100
          Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-12-16 09:20 +0100
      Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-12-15 14:50 +0100
        Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-12-21 12:50 +0100
          Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3          years? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2020-12-21 15:50 +0100
            Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2020-12-21 18:00 +0100
          Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years? "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2020-12-21 16:30 +0100
            Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-12-21 16:50 +0100
              Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3          years? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2020-12-22 01:30 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-12-22 12:40 +0100
              Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-12-26 23:50 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-12-27 12:10 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-12-27 17:00 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-12-27 23:20 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-12-28 02:50 +0100
                Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3  years? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-12-27 19:20 +0100

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