On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 22:40 -0400, fred smith wrote: > 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. Did you try F9? I recall some older Fedoras' installers had been broken on i586's (but I don't recall which Fedora this had been :) ). > > 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. Once it is installed, Fedora runs well on Intel P5s - At least on my old Intel P5. However, this doesn't mean much wrt. K6s. Ralf -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
