Re: Fedora on old hardware?

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On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 07:35:29PM -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> I have an old laptop (AMD K6 400MHz) that refuses to install Fedora 8.
> I've tried Live KDE CD - that failed to boot because it's for i686 only.
> At least it says the CPU is incompatible...
> I've also tried the i386 DVD - it fails around the beginning of the
> install process with a generic message that something went wrong - and
> doesn't install.
> Is this something that happens a lot?
> 
> Knoppix 5.11 live CD booted up just fine (although really slow :)
> Going to try latest Ubuntu now...

A K6 (or K6-II) is a pentium (P5) class processor, not a P6 (i686) class
processor. Many distributions have dropped support for processors older
than 686-class. I suspect Fedora is one of them, though I don't know 
with certainty.


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