Fedora on old hardware?

Mon Sep 8 02:35:29 UTC 2008

I have an old laptop (AMD K6 400MHz) that refuses to install Fedora 8.
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...