I see, so F8 is just broken for older hardware installs... but I don't want F9 as its KDE is not up to snuff just yet... fedora wrote: > I installed F9 on a Pentium II MMX, 366MHz. > I could not make it install over the Network, because it has PCMCIA > only connection to Ethernet, and I did not find the correct module for > the PCMCIA card or the correct module was ill-configured for that > installation. > then I tried from the live cd: the live cd run and installed, and > everything works close to fine. it's not exactly a shot, but better > than nothing. > > I earlier tried to install F8 on a K2, but this really did not work. I > then installed openBSD on the K2, and it worked like a charm. > > suomi > > Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> 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
