On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Jim Cavera wrote: > My apologies for the (possibly) dumb question. I DL'd > the CD images and am trying to install on a Dell > Lattitude LS. > > Config: Dell Lattitude LS > Pentium III, 400 MHz > 128Mb RAM, 10gig HDD > > As per the LinuxLaptop instructions, I cleaned all > hidden partitions off the drive. I now have a > completely empty, newly formatted, 10gig partition. > And no OS. > > When running the anaconda installer, I get the error > (immediately following inital VM loading): > > This CPU does not support long mode. Use a 32 bit > distribution. > > What does this mean, how can I fix/avoid it (no, I > won't buy another laptop)? Note that though I am a > professional progammer, I am completely new to Linux > and haven't used *nix in many years. So speak slowly. > TIA. Did you d/l the i386 ISOs or x86-64? -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
