Fedora on old hardware?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 22:40 -0400, fred smith wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 07:35:29PM -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> > I have an old laptop (AMD K6 400MHz) that refuses to install Fedora 8.
Did you try F9? I recall some older Fedoras' installers had been broken
on i586's (but I don't recall which Fedora this had been :) ).

> > 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...
> 
> A K6 (or K6-II) is a pentium (P5) class processor, not a P6 (i686) class
> processor. Many distributions have dropped support for processors older
> than 686-class. I suspect Fedora is one of them, though I don't know 
> with certainty.

Once it is installed, Fedora runs well on Intel P5s - At least on my old
Intel P5.

However, this doesn't mean much wrt. K6s.

Ralf