Fedora on old hardware?

[Konstantin Svist]

I see, so F8 is just broken for older hardware installs... but I don't
want F9 as its KDE is not up to snuff just yet...



fedora wrote:
> I  installed F9 on a Pentium II MMX, 366MHz.
> I could not make it install over the Network, because it has PCMCIA
> only connection to Ethernet, and I did not find the correct module for
> the PCMCIA card or the correct module was ill-configured for that
> installation.
> then I tried from the live cd: the live cd run and installed, and
> everything works close to fine. it's not exactly a shot, but better
> than nothing.
>
> I earlier tried to install F8 on a K2, but this really did not work. I
> then  installed openBSD on the K2, and it worked like a charm.
>
> suomi
>
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 22:40 -0400, fred smith wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Did you try F9? I recall some older Fedoras' installers had been broken
>> on i586's (but I don't recall which Fedora this had been :) ).
>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> Once it is installed, Fedora runs well on Intel P5s - At least on my old
>> Intel P5.
>>
>> However, this doesn't mean much wrt. K6s.
>>
>> Ralf
>>
>>
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