Installing Fedora on the Fit-PC

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:02 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> I have a Fit-PC (http://www.fit-pc.com/) that I'm trying to install
> Fedora on to no real avail. Its similar specs to an olpc in that its
> based on the same AMD geode cpu and it comes installed with Ubuntu.
> I've tried a couple of different variations of USB key install to no
> avail. I can't seem to get it past the boot loader stage. Has anyone
> else had any luck installing Fedora on these devices?

IIRC, the Geode requires an "i586" kernel.  The LiveCD uses an i686
kernel and thus won't boot on the hardware.  The boot.iso embeds the
i586 kernel instead for this purpose

Jeremy