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. > 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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 ---------------------------------
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