On Mon, May 23, 2022, 10:53 AM José María Terry Jiménez jtj@tssystems.net wrote:
El 23/5/22 a las 16:59, jim.cromie@gmail.com escribió:
so Ive got some old i686 computers, electronics recycle day approaches, but before I do that, I thought Id try to get them working
1st one (toshiba satellite core2 laptop) threw a hard-drive, clunking noises, then finally falls back to pxe-boot.
I put fedora-30-live on a usb (last one with i686 support) but booting it, I get a 2-line error:
This kernel requires x86-64, but only detected i686 unable to boot - ...
I know f30 supports i686 - I have 1 old desktop still running it.
next is hp pavilion g7 pressing power gives brief spin-up of fans, nothing else. f2, f10, esc during boot dont help, screen brightness or vga monitor dont help either I pulled hard drive and memory to force BIOS / POST to do something different, NO CHANGE. Any suggestions?
but at least I have a new/old hard-drive for the toshiba.
I also have a dell pentium2-233, running knoppix with a 2.6.19 kernel, its reluctant to do anything (aptitude is trying forever) I think its too old to have a bios that can usb boot
I have used fedora-live-usb to rescue machines in the past, but Im running out of options. I would welcome other distro suggestions for tired old hardware
thanks
Hello
Last release for i686 (i386) is Fedora 25. I've checked the repo. Here are the downloads. Note that 26 and following only is available in x86_64
Yes I'll accept that I have an old 686 desktop thats still running F30, when they finally abandoned the updates. Its running a 5.16-rc4 kernel now :-) video resolution on distro kernel dropped to VGA quality at some point, I had to do something ;-)
I ended up putting Bodhi Linux on the toshiba laptop cuz it targets low-mem, low-disk, slow-cpu machines, like these old machines I have lying around.