Fedora on old hardware?

[Mike McCarty]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Konstantin Svist wrote:
>> I have an old laptop (AMD K6 400MHz) that refuses to install Fedora 8.
> 
> I had no trouble installing Fedora 7 on a K6-2 500 that I have here.
> 
>> I've tried Live KDE CD - that failed to boot because it's for i686 only.
>> At least it says the CPU is incompatible...
> 
> Yes, the K6 is a 586 compatible CPU, not a 686....
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I didn't have this problem with F7.  It installed for me.
> 
>> Is this something that happens a lot?
> 
> I don't know, that system isn't running right now, I'd have to put it 
> back together and try with something later....
> 
>> Knoppix 5.11 live CD booted up just fine (although really slow :)
>> Going to try latest Ubuntu now...
> 
> Just to let you know, your system will make a piss poor graphical system 
> (too slow) with the current environments.  You'd really have to dig 
> around to find a light-weight one that works.  Its probably OK for 
> command line stuff though.

DSL should run fine, and I suspect that Puppy would work well
if he's got enough RAM.

Mike
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