Fedora 6 is not able to install in PIII, 256MB SD RAM, 1.3GHz
Les
hlhowell at pacbell.net
Fri Jan 12 08:10:49 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 11:41 -0800, Norm wrote:
> James Wilkinson wrote:
> > Norm wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I have not been able to determine what vintage the processor in my old
> >> box is but with a 735 clock speed we can assume it is old.
> >>
> >
> > With a 733(ish) processor speed, it was either a Pentium III on a 133
> > MHz motherboard or a Celeron on a 66 MHz motherboard. You can check by
> > running
> > cat /proc/cpuinfo
> > The 733 MHz Pentium III was released in autumn 1999, the 733 Celeron in
> > autumn 2000.
> >
> > If I remember correctly, the 733 MHz Pentium III would have become
> > obsolete in mid 2001, and the Celeron maybe six months later.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > James.
> >
> >
> Thanks James, before I emailed the list I checked cpuinfo, the
> information is not as clear as I had hoped. My guess is I am running
> close to the absolute usable minimum hardware set up which is older than
> he one in question and the issues involved are more than a generic P3
> FC6 issue below is the information from my cpuinfo file. I suspect that
> the box has its last FC upgrade and is nearing the end of its usable
> life as a test box (I might be able to extend its life a bnit if I can
> find some more RAM but the box is not worth spending any money on), even
> distros like Ubuntu don't run well on it, but at the price I paid for it
> I can't complain.
>
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : CentaurHauls
> cpu family : 6
> model : 7
> model name : VIA Ezra
> stepping : 10
> cpu MHz : 735.020
> cache size : 64 KB
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 1
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow up
> bogomips : 1470.81
>
Here is what I have and I am running FC6.
[lesh at localhost ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 6
model name : Celeron (Mendocino)
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 467.737
cache size : 128 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 mmx fxsr up
bogomips : 936.11
This was a straight install of the i386, later I upgraded the kernel
with instructions from this mailing list to the 686version. Not too
much difference in performance. My disk is pretty small (<30G) and
everything fits including quite large user file space (>20G mostly text
and photos).
Regards,
Les H
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