Is PIII an i686?

[Knute Johnson]

>On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:39:25 -0700
>"Knute Johnson" <knute at frazmtn.com> wrote:
>
>> >On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:12:38 -0700
>> >"Knute Johnson" <knute at frazmtn.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I've got a Pentium 3 600mhz computer.  Is the P3 chip an i686?  It 
>> >> won't run the F7 i686 Live CD.  It won't run the i386 boot.iso 
>> >> either.
>> >> 
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> 
>> >if it already has a version of linux on it you can run uname -m to
>> >find out.
>> 
>> Thank you very much.  Turns out it is an i686.  So that isn't a 
>> reason that the Live CD corks.
>> 
>Does the bios allow booting from CD?
>Is it turned on?

Yes.  I've put FC5 and FC6 on them but no-go with F7.  It does load 
vmlinuz and initrd and shows Ready but never goes any further.

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Knute Johnson
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