Fedora on old hardware?

[fedora]

I  installed F9 on a Pentium II MMX, 366MHz.
I could not make it install over the Network, because it has PCMCIA only 
connection to Ethernet, and I did not find the correct module for the 
PCMCIA card or the correct module was ill-configured for that installation.
then I tried from the live cd: the live cd run and installed, and 
everything works close to fine. it's not exactly a shot, but better than 
nothing.

I earlier tried to install F8 on a K2, but this really did not work. I 
then  installed openBSD on the K2, and it worked like a charm.

suomi

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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
> 
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