Fedora 18 no go on Pentium III

Tue Jan 15 15:04:29 UTC 2013

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R <caf <at> omen.com> writes:

> A Spherical Cow DVD install never gets past checking the DVD.
> A pxeboot install insists on reading the DVD.
> The exact same 32b pxeboot install works fine on a 64 bit machine.

On one of my 32-bit machines (Celeron from 2006), it finished checking the DVD
with a PASS and then hung somewhere shortly after. I then went back and rebooted
the installer with the non-mediacheck option, and that time it proceeded. I
didn't bother to see if it was reproducible.