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

Arvid Picciani aep at exys.org
Mon Dec 28 00:39:34 EST 2009


On 12/28/2009 03:39 AM, David C. Rankin 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.
>
>

Compile it yourself then (abs is trivial)  or if you are too lazy:
http://vectorlinux.com/ is similar to arch (slightly more slackware 
biased )  and runs on i386



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Arvid
Asgaard Technologies


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