Re: Installing on an AMD K6-2-350

["Mark Haney" <mhaney ercbroadband org>]

david wrote:

> Folks
>
> I have an ancient machine that ran FC1 just fine.
>
> However, now when I boot from the installation CD (1), and enter
>   linux text
> the system reboots itself.
>
> I can't get out of this loop.
>
> Should I discard the computer, or is there some magic boot parameter 
> that might work?
> Or some alternate solution, since floppys are too small.
>
> Thanks
>
> David
I have a similar system and after finally getting it to run FC4, it was 
so incredibly slow that I went with another distro (Gentoo) that I could 
tweak and pare down to the point that it could run a gui and some other 
things like apache.



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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator	
ERC Broadband