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Old 11-27-2012, 04:38 PM   #1
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Use Debian Testing repository on Damn Small Linux


Title explains what I want to do.

I know how to edit sources.list but something seems to not be working.
Can someone post a working list?
 
Old 11-27-2012, 05:10 PM   #2
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Title explains what I want to do.
No, it doesn't.

If you want people to help, please explain in some detail what you want to achieve. Please don't forget that we are all volunteers and don't want to help people who don't even ask their question with some explanatory sentence.

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Impossible.
 
Old 11-27-2012, 05:27 PM   #4
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No, it doesn't.

If you want people to help, please explain in some detail what you want to achieve. Please don't forget that we are all volunteers and don't want to help people who don't even ask their question with some explanatory sentence.

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Sorry if it looked rude, that wasn't my intention.

Ok, I'll try to explain it better then. What I want to achieve is to use repos from Debian Testing on Damn Small Linux. I want to do that because in its default repo there aren't some packages I need.
 
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As far as I know Damn Small Linux is based on Debian, but since DSL isn't developed any longer, you will not get packages from Debian testing to work on Damn Small Linux.

You could try to build the packages for the system from source. Or use another distro.

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Sorry if it looked rude, that wasn't my intention.

Ok, I'll try to explain it better then. What I want to achieve is to use repos from Debian Testing on Damn Small Linux. I want to do that because in its default repo there aren't some packages I need.
Instead of doing something crazy like that, why not just tell us the name of the package(s) you need, and maybe we can suggest a non-crazy way to accomplish it? Although I wouldn't hold out much hope for using the latest & greatest packages, DSL is based on Debian Sarge ("end of life" since 2008).
 
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Or use another distro.
That would be the best thing to do, but literally nothing else can run on that machine.
It's a Pentium II box with 32Mb Ram. The only other thing that almost worked was Debian netinstall, but it stopped during the installation because of the low Ram, I suppose. If there's a way to activate a Swap partition BEFORE starting the installation, well, that would be perfect. I'd rather do that.
 
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That would be the best thing to do, but literally nothing else can run on that machine.
It's a Pentium II box with 32Mb Ram. The only other thing that almost worked was Debian netinstall, but it stopped during the installation because of the low Ram, I suppose. If there's a way to activate a Swap partition BEFORE starting the installation, well, that would be perfect. I'd rather do that.
I'd recycle it and get newer hardware. You can get a Raspberry Pi for $25, a smartphone for free with 2-year activation, or a Pentium 4 with 1gb RAM from the trash; any of which is exponentially more powerful than your P2 with 32mb RAM. If your time has any value to you then don't waste it struggling with that machine, life is short.
 
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I'd recycle it and get newer hardware. You can get a Raspberry Pi for $25, a smartphone for free with 2-year activation, or a Pentium 4 with 1gb RAM from the trash; any of which is exponentially more powerful than your P2 with 32mb RAM. If your time has any value to you then don't waste it struggling with that machine, life is short.
Well, I'm not doing it because I "need" to. I just thought that it would have been a nice thing to do, make a machine that old run again and use it for some works (I know, it sounds crazy...). It's a sort of hobby for me.

In fact, I already have another PC, the one I'm writing on right now. A 1225b running LMDE, one of the heaviest but most complete and easy to use distros out there. The exact opposite of the other one.

The package I needed was Wicd because I found that that's the only way to use WPA2 wireless on DSL.
You know, even if it might not work I would like to try to use Testing repos on that system, if there's even a small chance that it might work, but, if not, I'll try to find another 32Mb Ram and put it in, then I'll try Netinstall or antiX.
 
Old 11-28-2012, 12:36 AM   #10
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The package I needed was Wicd because I found that that's the only way to use WPA2 wireless on DSL.
No, wicd will not work, the package which allows for connecting with WPA2 is wpa_supplicant.
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You know, even if it might not work I would like to try to use Testing repos on that system, if there's even a small chance that it might work, but, if not, I'll try to find another 32Mb Ram and put it in, then I'll try Netinstall or antiX.
You could try Linux from Scratch.

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