[weblacky]

Considering the numerous roadblocks you have encountered and issues that have been posted it would seem more reasonable that you might want to install the most common 6.5.22 installation in an Indy and learn about all the quirks and issues with set up and then attempt to install an older OS, that has less existing documentation, less user experience, and less software available.

I don’t quite know what the endgame is here, but there’s not much available for 5.3 anyway, and there’s a reason for that.

Either way as long as you’re doing 5.3 that supported XFS, the partitioning is exactly the same from my recollection.

The speed difference is not so appreciable that your system is unusable with 6.5. I installed 5.3 once after years of experience with 6.5 just to see what it was like. From my recollection, the installation was pretty similar if not the same, except at the end there was literally nothing I could do with it because there was no open source software that anyone had bothered to compile for 5.3. There was also no updated compilers for 5.3. After about 20 minutes of staring at the desktop, I was ready to go back to 6.5 because that’s where all the software is.

I think our collective suggestion is why don’t you go through the path of least resistance to get everything working under 6.5.22 so you can learn and then take the road less traveled once you has some experience under your belt.