[arch-general] What ISO will load a kernel in an AMD K62/450?

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Mon Dec 28 02:35:44 EST 2009


On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:39:19 -0600, "David C. Rankin"
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> After the recent discussion about arch working well on old hardware, I
> decided to dump a suse 10.3 install on an old AMD K6-2/450 and install
arch
> on it. I downloaded the net install iso i686. I knew if it was truly
i686
> it wouldn't install -- and it didn't.
> 
> My question is which Arch download, if any, can install on this old
> hardware. (currently a great little fax server, backup DNS/dhcp box and
40G
> of storage.) Any help (or the right link) would be appreciated.

The K6 is no i686 and Arch wont run on it. (OK, there was a port to i586;
no idea if it's still active)

-- 
Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre


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