so Ive got some old i686 computers,
electronics recycle day approaches, but before I do that,
I thought Id try to get them working
1st one (toshiba satellite core2 laptop) threw a hard-drive,
clunking noises, then finally falls back to pxe-boot.
I put fedora-30-live on a usb (last one with i686 support)
but booting it, I get a 2-line error:
This kernel requires x86-64, but only detected i686
unable to boot - ...
I know f30 supports i686 - I have 1 old desktop still running it.
next is hp pavilion g7
pressing power gives brief spin-up of fans, nothing else.
f2, f10, esc during boot dont help,
screen brightness or vga monitor dont help either
I pulled hard drive and memory to force BIOS / POST
to do something different, NO CHANGE.
Any suggestions?
but at least I have a new/old hard-drive for the toshiba.
I also have a dell pentium2-233,
running knoppix with a 2.6.19 kernel,
its reluctant to do anything (aptitude is trying forever)
I think its too old to have a bios that can usb boot
I have used fedora-live-usb to rescue machines
in the past, but Im running out of options.
I would welcome other distro suggestions for tired old hardware
thanks
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