Re: Installing Fedora on the Fit-PC

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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:02 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> I have a Fit-PC (http://www.fit-pc.com/) that I'm trying to install
>> Fedora on to no real avail. Its similar specs to an olpc in that its
>> based on the same AMD geode cpu and it comes installed with Ubuntu.
>> I've tried a couple of different variations of USB key install to no
>> avail. I can't seem to get it past the boot loader stage. Has anyone
>> else had any luck installing Fedora on these devices?
>
> IIRC, the Geode requires an "i586" kernel.  The LiveCD uses an i686
> kernel and thus won't boot on the hardware.  The boot.iso embeds the
> i586 kernel instead for this purpose

What about the netboot.iso? I used some usb key util to create the
bootable usb key. As the device only has 256 meg of ram I had
suspicions the live cd wouldn't work so I went with the installer.

Regards,
Peter

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